Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (born 14 October 1975 in

Sogamoso Sogamoso () is a city in the department of Boyacá of Colombia. It is the capital of the Sugamuxi Province, named after the original Sugamuxi. Sogamoso is nicknamed "City of the Sun", based on the original Muisca tradition of pilgrimage and ador ...

) is a Colombian former

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, who competed professionally for Petróleos de Colombia, , , , Cafes Baque, , , and . Parra comes from a Colombian cycling family. His father, Humberto was a successful in the Vuelta a Colombia, his eldest brother was the

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n climber

Fabio Parra Fabio Enrique Parra Pinto (born November 22, 1959 in Sogamoso, Boyacá) is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Parra was successful as an amateur in Colombia, winning the ''Novatos'' classification for new riders or riders riding their fi ...

who won stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in the 1980s. His other brother (named after his father) Humberto was also a professional cyclist for several years. Parra started cycling as a mountain bike rider and was the Colombian national MTB champion in 1994. He represented Colombia internationally as a mountain biker but changed to road racing. In 1998 he came second in the Vuelta a Colombia. In 1999 he came to ride in the European peloton. In 2005 while riding for the

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, Parra won two back-to-back stages of the Giro d'Italia.

Career highlights

Major results

;1998 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1999 : 9th Overall Vuelta a España ;2000 : 1st Stage 5 Volta a Galega ;2004 : 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya : 10th Overall Vuelta Ciclista de Chile ;2005 : 1st MaillotColombia

Time trial, National Road Championships : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 13 & 14 ;2006 : 1st Jersey pink

Mountains classification Tour de Romandie ;2008 : 8th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;2013 : 4th Overall Vuelta a Colombia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* * * 1975 births Living people People from Sogamoso Colombian male cyclists Colombian Giro d'Italia stage winners Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Colombia Sportspeople from Boyacá Department 21st-century Colombian people {{colombia-cycling-bio-stub