The Colombian’s palmares includes overall wins at the Vuelta a Burgos, Tour de Langkawi, Tour de la Provence, and the Vuelta Asturias, among others. On his way to claiming GC titles, he’s also taken stages at the same races, and this spring won stage three of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye. This season he has finished second at the Colombian national championship, the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye, and the Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes.

After a challenging period, Ivan ended his 2025 season early so he could have surgery on his iliac artery and start the recovery process. The surgery went well and he seemed to have healed well but Ivan knew the real verdict would come out when he returned to racing. His first race back was the Colombian national championships this past January and he finished in second place, just seconds off of the winning time. His mountain top win in Türkiye confirmed that he is fully back.

“I think I came [to Türkiye] with that sense of excitement,” Ivan said. “I’d already gotten off to a good start at the national championship in Colombia, and coming here to Europe, I wanted to do really well. I think I wanted to do well at the Volta Ciclista Catalunya, but I had a bit of an allergy. In the end, it was a step-by-step process, and in Türkiye it was really great to win again, and I think that kind of restored my confidence and motivated me to keep working toward more victories.”

With a pair of top 10 stage results at the Vuelta a España and returning to the WorldTour, Ivan knows he is heading in the right direction.

“Everything's just getting better and better. I’m growing more and more, and I feel better and better,” he said. ”I'm really happy, really pleased, because I also had the chance to see how my body was holding up and I realize that I’m fine now. It really motivates me to be able to rejoin the WorldTour and know that I’ll have the team’s support—everyone’s support—and that we’ll be able to improve and win races. That’s what I want and what I think the team wants, too.”

Team founder and CEO Jonathan Vaughters agrees.

“Ivan is on his way to firing on all cylinders for the first time in a few years,” Vaughters said. “He’s going to be a huge help to our team when we’re racing in the high mountains. He is savvy enough to get himself into a strong breakaway and then he’s strong enough to be able to make it to the finale. We saw him do that twice at the Vuelta a España. And after his recovery from iliac artery surgery, he has shown how motivated he is to race aggressively in search of wins. That’s the kind of rider we look for.”

Ivan grew up in Pasca, a small town near Bogotá. One of his uncles loved sports, cycling in particular. He used to regularly organize rides with a handful of cousins. 

“After all our other cousins had dropped out, it was just me and another cousin,” Ivan said. “That cousin was also a cyclist—though he’s since retired—and in the end, thanks to my uncle, that vision really took off. And here I am, still passionate about cycling.”

For Ivan, joining EF Education-EasyPost was an easy decision.

“I’ve heard great things about EF Education-EasyPost from riders on the team. They speak very highly of the team. And I think the team gave me the opportunity—and will continue to give me the opportunity—to come back and take that leap forward. And I believe that by working together with everyone who’s part of the team, I know we’re going to be able to achieve great things and we’re going to have lots of happy moments—lots of victories that we’ll experience along the way—but the idea is to try to have happy moments, right?”

We’re looking forward to all the happy moments with you, Ivan!