News | National championship | Team October 22, 2025

Isaac del Toro to contest the Mexican National Championships for UAE Team Emirates-XRG

Emirati squad extends its record-breaking campaign by a further week, with Del Toro to compete in both the ITT and road race events

Isaac del Toro is chasing his first Mexican title

UAE Team Emirates-XRG is delighted to announce that Isaac del Toro will compete in the Mexican National Championships in Baja California over the coming days, with the event set to extend the Emirati squad’s record-breaking season.

 

Returning to his home city of Ensenada, Del Toro will compete in both the Elite Men’s Individual Time Trial on Thursday, 23 October, and the Elite Men’s Individual Road Race on Saturday, 25 October.

 

Ordinarily, UAE Team Emirates-XRG’s season would have drawn to a close last weekend with the final UCI races in Europe; however, this year’s Mexican Nationals have been organised in exceptional circumstances and will extend the 2025 campaign by a further week.

 

Sitting on 95 victories for the year to date – a new record by any team in the history of professional cycling – the Emirati squad will hope to add to this tally through Del Toro.

 

Fittingly, this week’s races are to be held in the port city of Ensenada, where the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider was born. Having become the first Mexican rider in history to finish on the Giro d’Italia podium in May, Del Toro’s return will be hotly anticipated.

 

The 21-year-old competed in his first Mexican Youth National Championships at the age of 14, and is relishing an opportunity to race on home roads in both the ITT and the road race.

 

Del Toro: “Racing the Mexican Championships in my hometown this weekend is really special for me. It’s the perfect way to close out the season – surrounded by family, friends, and the fans who have supported me since the beginning. I’m proud to race in the colours of UAE Team Emirates-XRG here, finally on home roads, and I’ll give everything to finish the year on a high note.

 

“It’s going to be a really special few days and I hope the whole Mexican biking community can get involved and enjoy this weekend celebrating cycling.”

 

Enjoying a stellar second year as a professional, Del Toro has taken 16 victories across 2025, including his first Grand Tour stage win at the Giro d’Italia. There, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG man was the race’s breakout performer, becoming the youngest rider to spend 10 consecutive days in the maglia rosa since Fausto Coppi in 1940.

 

Hailing from the low-lying city of Ensenada, Del Toro was born in Mexico’s northwesternmost state and has played a big role in the nation’s resurgent interest in cycling. His stage win at the Giro was the first by a Mexican rider since Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio in the early 2000s.

 

With victories in prestigious races such as Milano-Torino and the Giro dell’Emilia thus far in 2025, Del Toro has even moved himself up to third in the UCI’s individual rider rankings, only bettered by Tour de France champions Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.

 

The 2025 Mexican National Championships are to be hosted by the new Mexican Cycling Union and supported by the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (CONADE). Despite the last-minute arrangements, the races have been certified by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and offer UAE Team Emirates-XRG with one final chance to add to its tally of 95 wins for the campaign.