Javier Moreno

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Javier Moreno Road cycling
Javier Moreno (2016)
Javier Moreno (2016)
To person
Full name Javier Moreno Bazan
Date of birth July 18, 1984
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team Delko Marseille Provence
function driver
Most important successes

Overall ranking Vuelta a Asturias 2011
Overall ranking Vuelta a Castilla y León 2012

Last updated: February 1, 2017

Javier Moreno Bazán (born July 18, 1984 in Jaén ) is a Spanish cyclist .

Career

Javier Moreno won a stage at the Vuelta a Tenerife in 2005 and he won the overall ranking of the Vuelta a Córdoba. He later became the Spanish champion in the U23 road race. In 2006 he drove for Grupo Nicolas Mateos , where he was unsuccessful. In 2007 Moreno was under contract with the Spanish Continental Team Extremadura-Spiuk , where he won part of the Vuelta a Madrid .

In 2008 Moreno switched to the Professional Continental Team Andalucía-Cajasur , for which he also did his first big tour of the country, the Vuelta a España . He reached the 21st place in the overall ranking. In 2009 he achieved third place in the overall classification of the Vuelta a Asturias . In 2011 he switched to the Professional Continental Team Caja Rural , for which Moreno won the Vuelta a Asturias.

From 2012 to 2016 he drove for the Movistar team . In 2012 he finished eighth in the Tour Down Under and won the Vuelta a Castilla y León . He was also able to win the team time trial of the Vuelta a España with the Movistar team . A year later he reached second place overall at the Tour Down Under and also won the mountain classification . In May 2013 he won a stage of the Vuelta a Asturias , which he finished in third place in the final ranking. In 2014 Moreno came second in the Tour of Austria . He also won the team time trial again with the Movistar team at the start of the Vuelta a España . In February 2015 Moreno won the time trial of the Vuelta a Andalucía .

In 2017 he moved to Bahrain-Merida . At the Giro d'Italia 2017 , he was disqualified against Diego Rosa due to a physical attack on the fourth stage . According to Rosas, Moreno pushed him off the street. TV footage shows Moreno holding on to Rosa and possibly spitting on her. Moreno declined to comment.

successes

2005

  • MaillotEspaña.svg Spanish Champion - Road Race (U23)

2007

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2018

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - DNF DSQ -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - - - - 119 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 21st - 52 - 66 76 90 - - DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout. DSQ: disqualification.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Javier Moreno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Moreno excluded from the Giro because of physical violence. In: radsport-news.com. May 10, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .