Richard Carapaz
Richard Carapaz (2017) | |
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Full name | Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro |
Nickname | La Locomotora de Carchi ( Carchi's Locomotive) |
Date of birth | May 29, 1993 |
nation | 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 |
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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
- Vuelta a Guatemala junior ranking
- Pan American Championships - Road Races (U23)
- 2017
- Young talent route du Sud
- 2018
- Overall ranking and a stage Vuelta Asturias
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- 2019
- Overall classification, points classification and a stage Vuelta Asturias
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Giro d'Italia
- 2020
- one stage tour of Poland
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | 4th | 1 |
Tour de France | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | 36 | 18th | - |
Teams
- 2016 Strongman-Campagnolo Wilier (until May 31)
- 2016 Movistar Team (Stagiaire, from July 27th)
- 2017 Movistar team
- 2018 Movistar team
- 2019 Movistar team
- 2020 Team Ineos
Web links
- Richard Carapaz in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Richard Carapaz in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Debutant Carapaz is rewarded for his hard work before the Giro. In: radsport-news.com. May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ a b "Carchi's Locomotive" - Ecuadorian Carapaz in pink. In: rad-net.de. May 30, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Peter Ahrens: Girosieger Carapaz: From today a folk hero. In: Spiegel Online . June 2, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ 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 | |
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SURNAME | Carapaz, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carapaz Montenegro, Richard Antonio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ecuadorian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1993 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | El Carmelo |