Vincenzo Nibali

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Vincenzo Nibali Road cycling
Vincenzo Nibali (2015)
Vincenzo Nibali (2015)
To person
Nickname The Shark of Messina
Date of birth November 14, 1984
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Trek-Segafredo
function driver
Team (s)
2005
2006–2012
2013–2016
2017–2019
2020– 		Fassa Bortolo
Liquigas-Cannondale
Astana
Bahrain-Merida
Trek-Segafredo
Most important successes

Yellow jersey Tour de France 2014, Giro d'Italia 2013 , 2016 Vuelta a España 2010 Il Lombardia 2015 , 2017 Milan-Sanremo 2018
Pink jersey
Golden jersey

Last updated: February 8, 2020

Vincenzo Nibali (born November 14, 1984 in Messina ) is an Italian racing cyclist . His greatest successes to date have been the overall victories at the Vuelta a España 2010 , the Giro d'Italia 2013 and 2016, and the Tour de France 2014 . He also won the two monuments of cycling, Il Lombardia and Milan-San Remo . Because of its origin, Vincenzo Nibali is also called Lo squalo di Messina (The Shark of Messina) or Lo squalo dello Stretto .

Career

At the road cycling world championships in 2002 in Zolder Vincenzo Nibali won the bronze medal in the junior individual time trial . He repeated this success in Verona in 2004 , this time in the U23 class. In between he was able to win two stages at Linz – Passau – Budweis and one in the U23 tour of Tuscany . For the 2005 season Nibali got a contract with the Italian ProTeam Fassa Bortolo . At the Settimana Internazionale , he and his team won the team time trial . In the end he finished second behind Chris Horner . In 2006 Nibali switched to the Liquigas team and won a stage at the Settimana Internazionale. He celebrated his greatest success to date by winning the ProTour race GP Ouest France .

Vincenzo Nibali at the 2009 Tour de France

At the Giro d'Italia 2010 , he won the team time trial with his Liquigas-Doimo team and took over the Maglia Rosa for three days . After a downhill solo from Monte Grappa , he decided the 14th stage for himself. He finished the tour 2:37 minutes behind his team captain Ivan Basso in third place overall. At the end of September 2010, he won the overall ranking of a three-week tour of the country for the first time with the Vuelta a España , but remained without a stage success.

After not being able to win a single race in 2011, he achieved a stage victory in 2012 and overall victory in the spring stage race Tirreno-Adriatico . He finished the Tour de France 2012 in third place and was on the podium in all three national tours at the age of 27.

20th stage of the 2012 Tour de France

At the end of 2012 he switched to the Kazakh Astana Pro Team , where he replaced the previous captain and Olympic champion Alexander Vinokourov , who ended his career. For his new cycling team he was able to defend his title at Tirreno-Adriatico directly, but remained without a stage success.

In May 2013, Nibali won the overall Giro d'Italia . He wore the overall leader's pink jersey from the eighth stage and decided the 18th section of the day, a 20 km mountain time trial , and the 20th stage. He is the first southern Italian to achieve overall victory in the Tour of Italy. At the Vuelta a España 2013 , Vincenzo Nibali finished second overall and won the team time trial. He was surprisingly beaten by the almost 42-year-old American Chris Horner , who was stronger especially in the mountain stages. It is also worth mentioning that in his four participations in the Tour of Spain (once winner, once second, once seventh overall and once he was disqualified), Nibali has never won a stage (apart from a team time trial). At the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in his own country, Nibali took fourth place in the road race.

Nibali on Place de la Concorde during the 21st stage of the 2014 Tour de France

In 2014, Nibali first became the Italian road racing champion and shortly afterwards won the Tour de France with a lead of almost eight minutes. This was the biggest advantage since Jan Ullrich in 1997 . Nibali won four stages and wore the yellow jersey for 18 days . He benefited from the fall-related tasks of his competitors Chris Froome and Alberto Contador . Nibali is only the sixth driver to have won all three Grand Tours at least once.

Before the Tour de France 2015 , Nibali was again Italian champion. He was unable to repeat his previous tour's victory after losing a lot of time at the start of the tour due to a fall and in the Pyrenees . In the further course he could not be dangerous to the eventual winner Chris Froome , but Nibali improved. On the 19th stage , after a solo escape, he was able to win his only stage and finished the tour around eight minutes behind in fourth place. In the subsequent Vuelta a España , he was disqualified after the second stage because he let himself be pulled by a team vehicle to catch up a fall-related deficit. At the end of the season he had three victories in Italian one-day races: he won the Coppa Bernocchi and the Tre Valli Varesine and then lived up to his role as a favorite at the classic Il Lombardia when he was a soloist for the first time in his career after an attack on the penultimate downhill Monument of cycling won.

Nibali at the Giro d'Italia 2016

At the Giro d'Italia 2016 , Nibali initially fell short of public expectations, but improved in the third week of racing. After Steven Kruijswijk, who had been the clear overall leader, fell on a descent through his own fault , he won the mountain finish of the 19th stage to Risoul . The next day he attacked the new wearer of the pink jersey Esteban Chaves on the penultimate mountain, distanced him decisively and thus secured his second overall victory in the Tour of Italy after 2013. After Nibali contested the Tour de France 2016 as domestics for his teammate Fabio Aru and Having finished 30th, he was the captain of the Italian team in the Olympic road race . After an attack he was in the lead with Rafał Majka and Sergio Henao on the last descent , but fell and broke both collarbones .

For the 2017 season, Nibali moved to the newly founded team Bahrain-Merida , for which he finished third at the Giro d'Italia 2017 and second at the Vuelta a España 2017 . In both Grand Tours he won one stage each. At the end of the season he won Il Lombardia for the second time after 2015 , after shaking off his last companion Thibaut Pinot on the penultimate descent .

In 2018 Nibali won another monument with Milan-Sanremo after a solo attack seven kilometers from the finish on the ascent to Poggio di Sanremo . He had to give up the Tour de France 2018 after falling on the 12th stage due to a fractured vertebra. Nibali, who was in fourth place in the overall standings, did not start for the 13th stage.

After Nibali finished second overall at the Giro d'Italia 2019, 1:05 minutes behind Richard Carapaz , he was unable to intervene in the battle for the overall standings in the subsequent Tour de France 2019 , but won the last mountain finish of the after a solo escape 20th stage .

family

Vincenzo Nibali's brother Antonio is also a cyclist.

successes

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - road racing
  • Jersey yellow.svgOverall standings and four stages of the Tour de France

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 19th 11 - 3 2 - 1 - - 1 3 - 2
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 20th 7th - - 3 - 1 4th 30th - DNF 39
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 1 7th - 2 - DSQ - 2 59 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout. DSQ: disqualification.

Awards

Italy's Sportsman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 2013, 2014 and World Sportsman of the Year 2014, 2018 inclusion in the "Legend" category

Web links

Commons : Vincenzo Nibali  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. only Vincenzo Nibali - lo squalo di Messina vince il giro d'Italia. (No longer available online.) Messinaweb.eu, May 28, 2016, archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.messinaweb.eu
  2. ↑ a b Tour winner superior, but not unearthly - Nibali: No shark from the test tube? radsport-news.com, July 27, 2014, accessed August 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ cf. Vincenzo Nibali's official website only . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , "The shark of the Strait of Messina " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vincenzonibali.it
  4. ↑ Nibali drives away everyone. radsport-news.com, May 22, 2010, accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Nibali gets his first victory, Froome loses time on Quintana. radsport-news.com, July 24, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Nibali excluded from Vuelta. radsport-news.com, August 23, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Nibali e l'Ammiraglia. (Video) youtube.com, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Nibali crowns the Astana Autumn Festival. In: radsport-news.com. October 4, 2015, accessed October 8, 2017 .
  9. ^ Nibali catching up in the high mountains to triumph in the Giro. radsportnews.com, May 29, 2016, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Nibali already had Rio in mind during the tour. radsport-news.com, July 27, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Italian dream of gold destroyed in the last descent. radsport-news.com, August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Nibali does it like 2015: Solo victory in Como. In: radsport-news.com. October 7, 2017, accessed October 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Nibali near Sanremo: From doubter to winner. In: radsport-news.com. March 17, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  14. ↑ fracture of the vertebra! Nibali has to give up the tour. In: radsport-news.com. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Nibali: "The Giro was still in my bones". In: radsport-news.com. July 28, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nibali, Vincenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Messina