Elia Viviani

Elia Viviani
	Elia Viviani (2015)
To person
Date of birth	7th February 1989 (age 31)
nation	Italy
discipline	Train , road
Driver type	Endurance (track), sprinter (road)
To the team
Current team	Cofidis
function	driver
Team (s)
2010–2014 ; 2015–2017 ; 2018–2019 ; 2020-	Liquigas-Doimo ; Team Sky ; Quick-Step Floors ; Cofidis
Most important successes
	Olympic games Olympic Champion - Omnium 2016 UCI WorldTour one-day race Hamburg Cyclassics 2017 , 2018 , 2019 Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France 2017 Grand Tours five stages and points classification Giro d'Italia a stage Tour de France UEC European Road Championships 2019 European Champion - Road Race
	Last updated: June 3, 2020

Elia Viviani (born February 7, 1989 in Vallese di Oppeano ) is an Italian track and road cyclist . In 2016 he became Olympic champion in the Omnium and in 2017 he won two races of the UCI WorldTour.

Career

Viviani was European Junior Champion in track cycling in 2006 in team sprint and scratch . At the Junior World Championships in Ghent , he won the bronze medal in Madison . On the street he won the “Memorial Leonardo Massaro”. The following year Viviani was Italian champion in the junior team pursuit and in the youth class team sprint. At the European Championships he won the gold medal in the points race and bronze in the team sprint. At the Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes , he won bronze in the team pursuit. In 2008 Viviani won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the U23 European Championship and gold in both scratch and Madison. In the elite class, he won bronze in the Omnium .

At the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , Elia Viviani won silver in the scratch, seventh in the Omnium and sixth in the Madison, together with Davide Cimolai . At the rail world championships in Melbourne the following year , he fell so badly while participating in the Omnium that he had to give up. In 2016 Viviani was nominated to start in the Omnium at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he won the gold medal.

In road cycling , Viviani was able to record a few sprint victories in stages of smaller tours or one-day races . His greatest road success to date was a stage win at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 2013 until he won the second stage in the mass sprint of the field at the Giro d'Italia 2015 . In August 2017, he won the silver medal at the European sprint championships behind Alexander Kristoff and the mass sprints of the Hamburg Cyclassics and Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France competitions, which are part of the UCI WorldTour .

2017 was Vivianis' most successful year on the road to date, winning the Hamburg Cyclassics , Hammer Sportzone Limburg , the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France and a stage of the Tour of Britain , and he was runner-up in the road race. In the following year, more victories followed, such as the Dubai Tour and the three days of De Panne . He was also the Italian road champion.

Private matters and honors

Viviani lives with Elena Cecchini , who is also a cyclist.

In 2016 Elia Viviani was voted the best track cyclist of the year by the readers of the Cyclingnews.com website . In 2019 he was honored with the sports award Cangrande d'or in Verona .

In 2018 Viviani won the Gazzetta Sports Awards in the category Achievement of the Year ("Exploit dell'anno").