Igor Arrieta: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): UAE Team Emirates XRG
Nationality: Spain
Born: 8 December 2002, Uharte-Arakil, Spain
Profile: Climber and stage hunter
Pro since: 2021
Previous teams: Lizarte (amateur) (2021 (until 31 July)), Equipo Kern Pharma (2021–2023)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

31 January 2026AlUla Tour3rd overall (2nd in the young rider classification) Source
16 February 2026Clásica Jaén7th Source
28 February 2026Faun-Ardèche Classic9th Source
11 April 2026Itzulia Basque Country8th overall (2nd on stage 3) Source
13 May 2026Giro d'Italia, stage 5 (Praia a Mare – Potenza)1st Source
31 May 2026Giro d'Italia19th overall (5th in the young rider classification) Source
28 June 2026Spanish National Championships, road race5th Source
25 July 2026Clásica de Ordizia2nd Source
20 September 2026Tour de Luxembourg5th overall (3rd in the young rider classification) Source
27 September 2026UCI Road World Championships, road race43rd Source

Palmarès

2021Spanish National Championships, under-23 time trial1st Source
2022O Gran Camiño7th overall, 1st young rider classification Source
2024UCI Road World Championships, under-23 road race10th Source
2025Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia1st (first professional win) Source
2025Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali3rd overall, 1st young rider classification Source
2026Giro d'Italia, stage 5 (Praia a Mare – Potenza)1st Source
2026AlUla Tour3rd overall Source
2026Itzulia Basque Country8th overall Source

Biography

Igor Arrieta Lizarraga is a Spanish road cyclist from Navarre, born on 8 December 2002 in Uharte-Arakil. He is 1.82 m tall and weighs 64 kg, according to his team and ProCyclingStats. He is the son of the former professional cyclist José Luis Arrieta. He has ridden for UAE Team Emirates since 2024, and the team’s official roster confirms him for 2026.

As a junior he raced both on the road and in cyclo-cross, and in the 2019–20 season he won the Spanish junior cyclo-cross title. In 2021, riding for the amateur team Lizarte, he won the Spanish under-23 time trial championship and the Volta a Castelló. He turned professional in August 2021 with the Spanish ProTeam Kern Pharma. In February 2022 he finished seventh overall at O Gran Camiño and won its young rider classification.

He moved to UAE Team Emirates for 2024. That year he was tenth in the under-23 road race at the World Championships in Zurich. In 2025 he took his first professional win at the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia and finished third overall at the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, where he also won the young rider classification.

He opened the 2026 season with third place overall at the AlUla Tour in January, and in April he was eighth overall at the Itzulia Basque Country. At the Giro d’Italia he won stage 5, from Praia a Mare to Potenza, on 13 May, his first Grand Tour stage win. He finished the Giro 19th overall and fifth in the young rider classification. In the second half of the year he was fifth in the Spanish road race championship, second at the Clásica de Ordizia, fifth overall at the Tour de Luxembourg and 43rd in the world championship road race.

Arrieta will leave UAE at the end of 2026. Wikipedia and ProCyclingStats both report that he has signed a three-year contract with Lidl–Trek from 2027.