Peter Sagan will conclude his professional career on Sunday at the Slovak Mountain Bike Championships.

Three-time road world champion Peter Sagan finished his one-and-a-half season career last year with Total Energies, where he competed in the World Tour finals and World Championships.

This season he dropped down to the continental level with the Slovakian team Pierre Baguette and tried to qualify for the Paris Olympics and one last road race.

Pierre Baguette announced Sunday that he will race his last cross-country race in the national mountain bike championships.

“Peter Sagan has had health problems this year and has decided to end his professional career at the Slovak MTB Championships in Košice today. ‘9]

’Today's XCO at 16:00 will be his last UCI pro race in any discipline. .”

”Today's XCO at 16:00 will be his last race in any discipline as a UCI pro race.

Sagan underwent two heart surgeries in February and March of this year after suffering tachycardia abnormalities during mountain bike races in Spain.

He returned to racing and competed in the Tour de Honly and several mountain bike races, only to learn in May that his country had failed to qualify for the mountain bike competition at the Paris Olympics.

His last success on the road came in June at a local stage race, the Tour of Slovakia.

“I still remember my first stage at the Tour Down Under on January 19, 2010,” Sagan posted on Instagram after the race.

“I would never have imagined at the time that I, a young lad not even 20 years old, would have such a long and fruitful career in this sport.

.” It's been a long road with its ups and downs, but to finish my road racing career at the Tour of Slovakia with the support and love of my Slovakian friends will be a memory I will cherish forever.”