Nairo Quintana

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Nairo Quintana Road cycling
Nairo Quintana at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2012
Nairo Quintana at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2012
To person
Full name Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Date of birth 4th February 1990 (age 30)
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders, tour riders
height 167 cm
Racing weight 59 kg
To the team
Current team Arkéa-Samsic
function driver
Team (s)
2009
2010–2011
2012–2019
2020– 		Boyacà es Para Vivirla
Colombia es Pasión-Café de Colombia
Movistar Team
Arkéa-Samsic
Most important successes
Grand Tours
Jersey pink.svgOverall ranking Giro d'Italia 2014
Jersey red.svgOverall ranking Vuelta a España 2016
three stages Tour de France ( 2013 , 2018 , 2019 )
UCI WorldTour
Overall ranking of the Tour of the Basque Country 2013
Overall ranking Tirreno – Adriatico 2015, 2017
Overall ranking Tour of Catalonia 2016
Overall ranking Tour de Romandie 2016
Last updated: July 26, 2019
Quintana at the Tour de France 2018

Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (born February 4, 1990 in Cómbita, Boyacá ) is a Colombian road cyclist , whose greatest successes so far are winning the Giro d'Italia 2014 and Vuelta a España 2016 .

Childhood and youth

Nairo Quintana comes from a farming family from Cómbita in Colombia, 2800 meters high in the Andes , who made a living from selling fruit and vegetables. When he was seven years old, his father had a serious accident with a truck, had a total of 14 operations and has been physically disabled since then. The five children had to help out on the farm every day. The parents were unable to pay for the school bus for Nairo due to lack of money, and he had to ride a 20 kg bicycle to school in Arcabuco every day. A distance was 25 kilometers and led back up an eight percent incline.

His younger brother Dayer Quintana (* 1992) is also a professional cyclist.

Athletic career

Nairo Quintana, a mountain specialist, began his career in 2009 with the Colombian Continental Team Boyacà es Para Vivirla . In his first year there he was in Rivera stage runner-up on the sixth section of the U23 edition of the Vuelta a Colombia . At the Colombian Championship in Barranquilla , Quintana was national champion in the individual time trial of the U23 class.

At the Tour de France 2013 , Quintana made his international breakthrough. After a defect and a large time lag of his team captain Alejandro Valverde , his Movistar team focused on him from then on. Quintana attacked in several stages and soon turned out to be the best young professional, which earned him the white jersey . After he had achieved the second stage position behind the eventual overall tour winner Froome in the stage on Mont Ventoux , he won the penultimate stage to Annecy-Semnoz and finally finished second in the overall standings of the tour. In addition, he decided the mountain classification for himself.

At the Giro d'Italia 2014 , Quintana won the 16th stage with some controversy. Due to extreme weather conditions during the crossing over the highest pass of this Giros with 2758 m, the Stilfser Joch , the race management announced "slow driving" for the descent, but without neutralizing the race. Quintana attacked anyway, won the stage and took the lead in the overall standings. In the mountain time trial in the 19th stage, he was able to extend his time advantage with a victory and was the first Colombian rider to win the Giro d'Italia , ahead of his compatriot Rigoberto Urán .

In the 2015 Tour de France , Quintana finished second behind Froome and brought him into trouble on the last mountain stage to L'Alpe d'Huez . In the end, however, 1:12 minutes were missing from victory. Quintana had already lost 1:28 minutes on Froome due to a wind edge on the 2nd stage . As in 2013, Quintana won the classification of the best young professional, in the mountain classification, as in the overall classification, he only had to admit defeat to Froome. During the Tour of Spain in 2015 , Quintana fell behind the eventual winner Fabio Aru early on due to brief health problems in the first half of the race . But he was able to make up ground again towards the end of the tour and finished it in fourth place.

In 2016, he won the stage races Tour of Catalonia , Tour de Romandie and Route du Sud , before being beaten by Froome again in the Tour de France , finishing third overall, 4:21 minutes behind. The revenge he succeeded in the following Vuelta a España , which he won after a stage victory with 1:23 minutes ahead of Froome.

Quintana started the 2017 season with the declared goal of winning both the Giro and the Tour. In preparation for the Tour of Italy, he won the Tour of Valencia and for the second time after 2015 Tirreno-Adriatico . At the Giro d'Italia 2017 , a three-way battle developed between Quintana, Vincenzo Nibali and Tom Dumoulin . Quintana was able to conquer the Maglia Rosa twice, but lost it again in the time trial stages held shortly thereafter to Dumoulin, who was clearly stronger in this discipline, including on the final stage of the tour. Quintana finished the Giro in second place behind Dumoulin, 31 seconds back. At the Tour de France 2017 , he then proved to be unable to compete for the overall victory and missed a place in the top ten in the overall standings. Quintana stated that he felt tired and that his body was not regenerating as hoped.

The following year, Quintana's main interest was again the Tour de France . During the preparation, the first discrepancies between him and his team leader at Movistar regarding the course of the preseason became known. In addition, Mikel Landa , fourth in the Tour de France last year and signed by Movistar at the start of the season, was another aspirant for top positions in the Tour line-up, so Quintana had to share the leadership role at Movistar with Landa and Alejandro Valverde . After a defect on the first stage, Quintana was unable to build on his previous performance in the Alps and continued to lose time. In the Pyrenees he won the short 17th stage and briefly made up ground again in the overall standings. On the last mountain stage, Quintana could no longer follow the pace of the other favorites, also due to a fall the day before, and at the end of the tour fell back to tenth place overall. He then took part in the Vuelta a España , in which he did not get past eighth overall. For the first time since 2013, Quintana remained without a podium or top five placement in a major tour of the country.

Awards

  • In 2013 and 2014, Quintana was Colombia's Sportsman of the Year .
  • In November 2015 he was born by the Spanish King Felipe VI. honored with the Trofeo Comunidad Iberoamericana , an award for Latin American athletes who have "distinguished themselves over the course of the year through their international sporting activities".
  • In 2016, Quintana took third place behind Peter Sagan and Chris Froome in the Vélo d'Or award .

social commitment

Quintana supports a campaign to promote equal rights for women in his home region of Boyacá and acts as a UNICEF ambassador .

successes

Quintana at the Grand Départ of the Tour 2017 in Düsseldorf
2009
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 1 - - 2 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 2 - 2 3 12 10 8th
Red jersey Vuelta a España 36 - DNF 4th 1 - 8th 4th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Nairo Quintana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/nacional/combita-pueblo-de-nairo-se-convierte-atraccion-turistic-articulo-611429
  2. ↑ Nairo Quintana - The jewel from the Andes on faz.net v. 18th July 2013
  3. ↑ 'Nairo Quintana es un hijo del campo': madre del ciclista on eltiempo.com v. 19th July 2013
  4. ↑ Tour de force from Froome means he'll journey up the Champs Elysees draped in yellow to certain glory. dailymail.co.uk, July 20, 2013, accessed May 2, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Dispute over Quintana's attack. FAZ, May 28, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Giro winner Quintana amazes cycling Europe. welt.de, June 1, 2014, accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Froome and Quintana - the tour duel also in the future. radsport-news.com, July 25, 2015, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Will the big counterattack from Quintana still come? radsport-news.com, September 11, 2015, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Quintana plans the double. In: fr.de. Frankfurter Rundschau, May 4, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Quintana didn't get what he wanted. In: radsport-news.com. May 29, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Felix Matthis: Quintana admits: It's just a lack of energy. In: radsport-news.com. July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Quintana is only interested in the Tour de France in 2018. In: radsport-news.com. March 6, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Sebastian Bräuer: Team Movistar at the Tour de Suisse: When the enemy drives in your own team. In: nzz.ch. June 8, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Can Movistar shine with a trio on the tour? In: radsport-news.com. June 18, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ After disappointment in the tour, Movistar-Dreizack is now hoping for the Vuelta. In: radsport-news.com. July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Quintana again Colombia's Sportsman of the Year. Radsport-news.com, December 10, 2014, accessed December 10, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Rojas operated on the heart, Quintana awarded by the Spanish king. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Sagan receives Vélo d'Or 2016. In: rad-net.de. December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Alasdair Fotheringham: Kaier Nairo, in: Procycling (German edition), July 2015, p. 41 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Quintana, Nairo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quintana Rojas, Nairo Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Cómbita, Boyacá