Fernando Gaviria

Fernando Gaviria
	Fernando Gaviria (2018)
To person
Full name	Fernando Gaviria Rendón
Date of birth	August 19, 1994
nation	Colombia
discipline	Road , rail
Driver type	Sprinter (road) / endurance (rail)
To the team
Current team	UAE Team Emirates
function	driver
Team (s)
2013–2015 ; 08 / 15–12 / 15 ; 2016 ; 2017–2018 ; 2019–	Colombia Coldeportes ; Etixx-Quick Step ( Stagiaire ) ; Etixx-Quick Step ; Quick-Step Floors ; UAE Team Emirates
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships - Omnium 2015, 2016 Grand Tours two stages Tour de France five stages of the Giro d'Italia classic Paris – Tours 2016
	Last updated: January 27, 2020

Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born August 19, 1994 in La Ceja ) is a Colombian cyclist who is active on track and road . He is two-time railway world champion in the Omnium and winner of the classic Paris-Tours . He's particularly successful on the road as a sprinter.

Athletic career

In 2012 Fernando Gaviria won two titles as junior world champion , in the Omnium and in the two-man team driving (with Jordan Parra ). In the same year he became the Colombian junior champion in the individual time trial . In 2013 he won gold in the Omnium and silver in the team pursuit at the Pan American Cycling Championships . At the Juegos Bolivarianos , he won the road race .

At the South American Games 2014 and the Central American and Caribbean Games , Gaviria won the Omnium and the Pan American Road Championships in road races (U23). At the Central American and Caribbean Games, he also won the silver medal in the individual time trial and was fourth in the road race. At the second round of the Track Cycling World Cup in London , he won the Omnium.

At the beginning of 2015 he won the first two stages of the Tour de San Luis in the sprint ahead of Mark Cavendish , where he competed for the Colombian national team. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2015 , he won the title of world champion in the Omnium, which he was able to defend in 2016.

In 2016 Gaviria was nominated to start in the Omnium on the track at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . After he had only finished a disappointing fourth place as the reigning world champion there, he announced that he would say goodbye to track cycling and concentrate on road cycling in the future.

From 2016 Gaviria also achieved increasing success on the road: He won the one-day race Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem and after a long sprint of 600 meters, the classic Paris-Tours . He also decided u. a. a stage from Tirreno – Adriatico and two stages of the Tour de Pologne for themselves. In spring 2017 he won a. a. at another stage from Tirreno-Adriatico . After winning his first section of a Grand Tour in the sprint of the third stage of the Giro d'Italia 2017 , he achieved three more stage victories on this tour. The sporting director of his team Quick-Step Floors , Patrick Lefevere , said in view of these successes that Gaviria will still not contest the Tour de France 2017 (“We don't kill our riders”), but will play a “protected role” within the coming year of the team in the classics .

In January 2018, on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional , Gaviria had a serious fall in a mass fall caused by a sudden strong crosswind, and then had to cancel the tour. Two weeks later, however, he was able to start in the national road championship. Shortly afterwards he won three stages and the points classification of the Colombia Oro y Paz race and, in May, three stages and the points classification of the Tour of California . In the Tour de France he won two stages and wore the yellow jersey for a day after the first stage .

In April 2019, Fernando Gaviria announced that he wanted to qualify for the omnium track competition of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo , but it did not succeed.

In spring 2020, Gaviria had to visit a hospital after the UAE tour was canceled because he was infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus ("Corona"). On March 27, he was able to leave the clinic recovered.