Esteban Chaves

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Esteban Chaves Road cycling
Chaves in the leadership jersey of the Tour of Spain 2015
Chaves in the leadership jersey of the Tour of Spain 2015
To person
Full name Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio
Date of birth 17th January 1990
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
height 1.64 m
Racing weight 54 kg
To the team
Current team Mitchelton-Scott
function driver
Societies)
2009-2011 4-72-Colombia
Team (s)
2012–2013
2014–2016
2017
2018– 		Colombia
Orica GreenEdge
Orica-Scott
Mitchelton-Scott
Most important successes
Last updated: May 10, 2018

Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio (born January 17, 1990 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian cyclist .

Athletic career

Esteban Chaves rode for the Colombian cycling team Colombia es Pasión-Café de Colombia from 2009 and won a stage at the Vuelta a Cundinamarca in 2009. In the 2011 season he won a day segment at the Clásica Club Deportivo Boyacá and the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Avenir .

In the 2012 and 2013 seasons, Chaves was under contract with the Colombia-Coldeportes team . In 2012 he won a stage of the Vuelta a Burgos and won the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore . At the beginning of the 2013 season he had a hard crash in the Italian one-day race Trofeo Laigueglia . He suffered a traumatic brain injury and amnesia . Later I found out a nerve injury that threatened to paralyze the right arm, but could largely be remedied by a nine-hour operation and months of rehabilitation.

In 2014 Chaves moved to the UCI WorldTeam Orica GreenEdge . In the first year of his comeback for this team, he won stages in the Tour of California and the Tour de Suisse . He also took part in a major country tour , the Vuelta a España 2014 , for the first time. which he finished in 41st place. At the Vuelta a España 2015 , he won two stages, wore the leader's Maillot Rojo for six days and finished the tour in fifth overall. At the subsequent Giro d'Italia 2016 , he won a stage, took over the Maglia Rosa of the overall leader for one day after the 19th stage and came second overall. In the road race of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he finished 21st.

In the same year, Esteban Chaves, who is said to be always in a good mood and to smile, won a “Monument to Cycling” with the Lombardy Tour . He was the first Colombian to win such a monument and the first non-European to win at Il Lombardia .

successes

2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 55 2 - 72 40
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 62 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 41 5 3 11 - 19th

Web links

Commons : Esteban Chaves  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alsdair Fortheringham: Back from oblivion . In: Procycling . No. 11 , 2015, p. 40-45 .
  2. ^ Rupert Guinness: Esteban Chaves: Behind the smile. In: Cyclingnews.com. April 28, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Chaves wins Il Lombardia. In: radsport-news.com. October 1, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Lombardia Belongs to Sidi-Chaves Makes History! In: PezCycling News. October 3, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chaves, Esteban
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaves Rubio, Jhoan Esteban (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá