Ivan Melendez Luque, a runner from the Junior Vuelta, died after a fall

The 17 -year -old Spanish runner, caught in a massive fall, lost his life. The organizers decided to cancel the rest of the event.

A few weeks after the death of the young Italian Samuele will private, aged 19, on the Tour du Val d'Aosta, cycling is again in mourning. Ivan Melendez Luque, runner of the Tenerife-Cabberty U19 team, died following a massive fall on Saturday August 23 on the second stage of Vuelta Ribera, the official name of the Vuelta Junior. This led the organizers to end the test.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and its president David Lappartient expressed their “deep sadness” and presented their condolences to “The entire cycling family” Following this death. The fatal accident intervened in the middle of the queen stage, between Langa of Duero and Laguna Negra (Castille-et-Léon, 117.8 km), of this competition of young people planned until Sunday on three stages only and coinciding with the start of the Tour of Senior Spain, La Vuelta.

According to the Spanish radio, Cadena Ser, around twenty runners were taken in this serious fall and 18 were hospitalized in Soria, including three in serious condition, including Ivan Melendez. This hospital announced in the evening that this young runner of the Tenerife team had died. The state of health of the other two seriously injured runners is not known. A tribute was paid on Sunday morning in Aranda del Duero, in the province of Burgos, as well as at the start of the second stage of the Vuelta, in Alba (Italy).