Darwin Atapuma

Darwin Atapuma

Darwin Atapuma (2015)
To person
Full name	John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado
Date of birth	January 15, 1988
nation	Colombia
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
height	167 cm
Racing weight	59 kg
To the team
Current team	Cofidis
function	driver
Most important successes
a stage Tour de Suisse 2016
Last updated: November 7, 2018

John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (born January 15, 1988 in Túquerres ) is a Colombian cyclist .

Career

After Darwin Atapuma won two stages of the Vuelta Ciclista a la Republica del Ecuador in 2007 and was Colombian road champion in 2008, he joined the Continental Team Colombia es Pasión Coldeportes in 2009 . He received his first contract with a ProTeam in 2013 with BMC , for which he won a mountainous stage of the Tour of Poland 2013 in the sprint of two outliers and thus his first race in the UCI WorldTour . Before that, he finished eighteenth in the overall standings on his Grand Tours debut at the Giro d'Italia .

During a training ride in Colombia, he was ambushed on December 31, 2013 and injured with a knife while trying to steal his racing bike.

At the Giro d'Italia 2016 , Atapuma achieved his first top ten result in the overall ranking of a major national tour with ninth place. In the subsequent Tour de Suisse , he achieved his greatest career success to date by winning the stage at the top of the mountain in Carì a few seconds ahead of his runaways.

successes

2007

• two stages Vuelta Ciclista a la Republica del Ecuador

2008

• Colombian champion - road racing

2009

• a stage Tour de Beauce

2012

• one stage of the Giro del Trentino

2013

• one stage tour of Poland

2015

• Team time trial Vuelta a España

2016

• one stage Tour de Suisse

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	18th	-	16	9	-	61	-
Tour de France	-	DNF	-	-	41	69	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	56	32	20th	-	61

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2009 Colombia es Pasión Coldeportes
• 2010 Café de Colombia-Colombia es Pasión
• 2011 Colombia es Pasión-Café de Colombia
• 2012 Colombia-Coldeportes
• 2013 Colombia
• 2014 BMC Racing Team
• 2015 BMC Racing Team
• 2016 BMC Racing Team
• 2017 UAE Team Emirates
• 2018 UAE Team Emirates
• 2019 Cofidis, Solutions Crédits

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Atapuma unstoppable this time, Riblon conquers yellow. radsport-news.com, August 2, 2013, accessed January 2, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Atapuma attacked during training and injured with a knife. radsport-news.com, January 2, 2015, accessed January 2, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Atapuma fights for the greatest victory of his career in Cari. In: radsport-news.com. June 15, 2016, accessed December 23, 2018 . 

Web links

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• Darwin Atapuma in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Darwin Atapuma in the ProCyclingStats.com database