Richard Carapaz

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Richard Carapaz Road cycling
Richard Carapaz (2017)
Richard Carapaz (2017)
To person
Full name Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro
Nickname La Locomotora de Carchi
( Carchi's Locomotive)
Date of birth May 29, 1993
nation EcuadorEcuador Ecuador
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
To the team
Current team Ineos
function driver
Team (s)
2016 (until May)
2016 (from July) -2019
2020– 		Strongman Campagnolo Wilier
Movistar Team
Ineos
Most important successes
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 2019
Vuelta Asturias 2018, 2019
Last updated: June 3, 2019

Richard Carapaz (born May 29, 1993 in El Carmelo ) is an Ecuadorian cyclist . He is considered a mountain specialist. In 2019 he was the first Ecuadorian to win the Giro d'Italia .

Childhood and youth

Richard Carapaz grew up with two sisters in the small Andean town of Julio Andrade near the border with Colombia , which is 2950 meters high. As a teenager, he ran his parents' farm together with his grandfather, as his mother had breast cancer . He got up early in the morning to milk the cows, then went to school to exercise.

Athletic career

At the age of 15, Carapaz moved to Bogotá , the capital of Colombia, to be trained as a cyclist. At that time it was already known in his homeland as the Carchi locomotive . He is trained by the training scientist Iosune Murillo.

In 2013, Carapaz was the U23 Pan American road racing champion . In 2015 he won the Vuelta de la Juventud , the most important tour in the U23 category in Colombia. After a brief engagement in 2016 with the Colombian UCI Continental Team Strongman-Campagnolo Wilier , in the summer of the same year he received a contract with the Spanish UCI WorldTeam Movistar , for which he contested his first Grand Tour with the Vuelta a España in 2017 and finished 36th overall. At the UCI WorldTour Paris – Nice 2018 race, he achieved his most important position to date, finishing eleventh overall. In April of the same year he won the general classification and a stage of the Vuelta a Asturias .

In 2018 Richard Carapaz won the mountain finish of the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia . He was the first Ecuadorian to win a stage of a major tour of the country . He finished the Tour of Italy in fourth place overall.

The following year, Carapaz was the first cyclist in his country to win this tour , having also won two stages. This victory made him a "folk hero" in Ecuador. 5000 fans gathered at the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium of Quito for public viewing . President Lenín Moreno announced that he would abolish taxes on the import of professional bikes.

successes

2013
2017
2018
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 4th 1
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 36 18th -

Teams

Web links

Commons : Richard Carapaz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debutant Carapaz is rewarded for his hard work before the Giro. In: radsport-news.com. May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b "Carchi's Locomotive" - ​​Ecuadorian Carapaz in pink. In: rad-net.de. May 30, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter Ahrens: Girosieger Carapaz: From today a folk hero. In: Spiegel Online . June 2, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gonzalo Ruiz Álvarez: 5,000 personas vieron el triunfo de Richard Carapaz en el estadio Atahualpa. In: elcomercio.com. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Carapaz, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carapaz Montenegro, Richard Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH El Carmelo