Nairo Quintana

Nairo Quintana

Quintana at the 2013 Tour of the Basque Country
Personal information
Full name	Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Nickname	Nairoman, "El Cóndor de los Andes"
Born	(1990-02-04) 4 February 1990 Cómbita, Boyacá, Colombia
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
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Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional teams
2009	Boyacá es para Vivirla
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Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia General classification (2014) Young rider classification (2014) 3 individual stages (2014, 2017) Tour de France Mountains classification (2013) Young rider classification (2013, 2015) 2 individual stages (2013, 2018) Vuelta a España General classification (2016) Combination classification (2016) 1 individual stage (2016) 2 TTT stages (2012, 2014) Stage races Tour of the Basque Country (2013) Volta a Catalunya (2016) Tour de Romandie (2016) Tirreno–Adriatico (2015, 2017) Vuelta a Burgos (2013, 2014) One-day races and Classics Giro dell'Emilia (2012)

Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, currently riding for the

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Quintana is a specialist climber, known for his ability to launch sustained and repeated attacks on ascents of steep gradient, high power output and great stamina to react and endure others attacks. He is also a decent time trialist, making him a consistent contender for general classification at stage races. His best career results are winning the 2014 Giro d'Italia and 2016 Vuelta a España, as well as a 2nd place overall in the Tour de France of 2013 and 2015.

His multiple wins in other major stage races, leading to high UCI WorldTour ranking placements at the end of each season, are other reasons why he is seen as one of the most successful stage-racing riders of the recent era, and the best road cyclist in Colombian history.

His brother Dayer Quintana is also a professional cyclist, and a fellow member of the Movistar Team.

Early life

Born in Cómbita, a town near the capital of Boyacá, Tunja, in Colombia, to a farming family, Quintana comes from a humble background, but his family still saved up to buy Quintana a second-hand mountain bike to make the 16 km (9.9 mi) journey through the Eastern Ranges of the Andes to school and to travel from village to village to sell fruit and vegetables. At the age of 16 he also started working as a taxi driver using his father's car. Quintana resides in Cómbita, splitting his time between his native country and Pamplona in Navarre. His parents' names are Luis Quintana and Eloisa Rojas, and he has four siblings: sisters Nelly and Lady, and brothers Willington and Dayer.

At the age of 15 he was hit by a taxi whilst riding, leaving him in a coma for five days. Despite this, his father, a cycling fan, recognised Nairo's potential and spent 300,000 Colombian pesos (around £100) on a racing bike to see if Nairo could make a career in the sport.

Career

Early career

He started his career on the team "Boyacá es para Vivirla". In 2010, Quintana won the Tour de l'Avenir as part of the team "Café de Colombia – Colombia es Pasión", proving to be one of the great prospects for the future of Colombian cycling.

2012 season

In 2012, Quintana moved to Europe to join the Spanish Movistar Team. He won the overall classification in the Vuelta a Murcia. Later, he took a prestigious victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné, when he sparked a counter-attack after a select group of riders including leader Bradley Wiggins reached the last escapee of the day. He held on to his solo lead in the descent leading to Morzine. After winning that stage, he later ended up winning the Route du Sud that year. Quintana made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España, where he was one of Alejandro Valverde's key climbing domestiques as the Spaniard finished second overall. Quintana finished 36th overall. In October, Quintana won the Giro dell'Emilia.

2013 season

Quintana at the 2013 Tour of Britain

In 2013, Quintana won stage 3 of the Volta a Catalunya, and the following month, he won the queen stage of the Tour of the Basque Country by sprinting to victory after the final climb in Eibar–Arrate, two seconds before a group of six fellow overall contenders. Quintana took the overall win in the final time trial by finishing second behind Tony Martin (

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At the 2013 Tour de France, Quintana attacked on the Col de Pailheres during Stage 8 and became the first man to cross the highest pass that year. He was later overtaken, on the stage's penultimate climb, by race favorite Chris Froome. Quintana nonetheless took the lead of the young rider classification and received the award for that stage's most aggressive rider. On stage 15 to Mont Ventoux, Quintana again attacked early on and only the race leader Froome was able to match him, eventually dropping him in the final two kilometers of the climb after they had raced up much of it together. After stage 15, Quintana was 6th overall. Stage 18 for the first time including doing the famous and iconic Alpe d'Huez climb twice. Quintana's 4th-place finish moved him into a 3rd place on the podium position in the overall standings for the first time, in his first TDF. In stage 20, he didn't just defend his 3rd place podium position, he attacked Froome, riding away from him in the last kilometer during the novel climb to Annecy-Semnoz to win the stage over Joaquin Rodriquez and Froome and moving securely into second place overall where he finished the Tour. He also won the Young Riders Jersey and the King of the Mountains competition. Finishing second overall in the general classification was the best result for a Colombian or Latin-American rider in the Tour the France and the first Tour debutant to finish on the podium since Jan Ullrich in 1996. After the Tour, Quintana went on to win the Vuelta a Burgos where he won stage 5 of the race after dropping Vincenzo Nibali on the final climb.

2014 season

Quintana in the pink jersey at the 2014 Giro d'Italia

Because of the high mountains included in the 2014 Giro d'Italia, Quintana decided to aim for the Giro and skip the Tour de France. His 2014 season started off with an early overall victory at the Tour de San Luis after winning the mountaintop finish of Stage 4. Quintana placed second overall behind Alberto Contador at Tirreno-Adriatico in March, and finished fifth in the Volta a Catalunya after getting sick between the races.

At the Giro, Quintana entered the race in weakened condition mainly due to the illness he caught early in the season. Quintana's Movistar team began with 8th place in the opening team time trial in Belfast, 55 seconds down on winners Orica Greenedge, after rain during their effort. In Stage 6, Quintana was caught up behind a huge crash as the peloton approached the finishing climb of Montecassino, which saw him sit 2 minutes and 8 seconds behind leader Michael Matthews. After the individual time trial on Stage 12, Quintana was 6th overall, 3 minutes and 29 seconds behind new leader Rigoberto Uran. Quintana started to show strong form on stages 14 and 15, reducing the gap to 2'40". He would later reach his top form in the last week of the race. In Stage 16, he claimed the general classification leaders's pink jersey in controversial circumstances as some of his top rivals had mistakenly thought that the descent of the Stelvio was neutralized; riding through dense fog and low visibility, Quintana joined an attack with Pierre Rolland and Ryder Hesjedal, eventually winning the stage and gaining 4'11" on Uran. In stage 19, Quintana flew up the Monte Grappa, winning the mountain time trial by 17 seconds over Fabio Aru to extend his overall lead over Uran to 3 minutes and 7 seconds. He maintained his lead on Monte Zoncolan on Stage 20 and the final stage into Trieste. Quintana also won the white jersey for best young rider.

After the Giro, Quintana took a couple months off from racing. He returned to Europe in August aiming to win the Vuelta a España. Two weeks before the Vuelta, Quintana won the Vuelta a Burgos, winning stage 3 and coming in second in the final time trial to give himself enough time over second placed Daniel Moreno. In the Vuelta, Quintana had the race lead coming in to Stage ten's ITT. However, he crashed badly after misjudging a bend and lost 4 minutes and the red jersey. He crashed again at the beginning of the next stage and withdrew from the race due to a broken collarbone.

2015 season

Quintana started his 2015 season at the Tour de San Luis. He finished third overall in the race. Quintana was originally scheduled to ride the Vuelta a Andalucía, but a crash at the Colombian national road race championships caused his withdrawal. His next race was therefore the Tirreno–Adriatico. Here he took his first win of the 2015 season on the summit finish at Terminillo, taking over the race lead as well. He won in a blizzard of snow. He would not relinquish the lead over the 10 kilometre final time trial and went on to win the overall as well as the young rider jersey. Quintana was selected by his team for two cobbled classics (the E3 Harelbeke and the Dwars door Vlaanderen) in order to prepare him for the cobblestones that had been scheduled to be part of the Tour de France. Quintana continued his Tour de France preparation by racing the Tour de Romandie and Tour of the Basque Country, finishing in 8th and 4th place respectfully. He then raced the Route du Sud where he battled Alberto Contador on stage 3 before finishing 2nd overall. Quintana then stayed home to train in June further before coming to France for the Tour.

Quintana wearing the white jersey at the 2015 Tour de France

On second stage of the Tour de France Quintana was caught out of a split in the peloton caused by high winds and lost a minute to Chris Froome and other favorites. On stage ten, the first mountain day, Quintana was the only rival that could stay with Chris Froome, finishing another minute behind him. Quintana then tried to distance himself from the yellow jersey in the last week of the Tour, advancing himself into second place overall on stage 17. Facing a 2'38 deficit to Froome on stage 19, Quintana promised he'll attack Froome and he fulfilled that promised, gaining 30 seconds on Froome by the end of the stage. And on the penultimate stage, featuring the Alpe d'Huez climb, Quintana attacked Froome again, using his teammates Alejandro Valverde and Winner Anacona to prize out an advantage before going solo with five kilometers to go. He gained time on Froome all the way to the finish, finishing second on the stage. Quintana finished the Tour in second place, 1'12 behind Chris Froome with his teammate Alejandro Valverde in third place overall. He also won the white jersey, with his Movistar Team winning the team classification.

After the end of the Tour, Chris Froome, Quintana, Valverde, and Vincenzo Nibali, the top four finishers in the Tour de France, announced their intentions to race the following grand tour, the Vuelta a España. However, early on, Quintana didn't look like he was on his best form. On stage 11, the queen stage, he lost three minutes to race leader Fabio Aru, falling to 9th place overall. Quintana admitted that he was suffering from a sickness and that he was considering about abandoning the Vuelta. However, he never did and came back to form on stage 14, finishing in sixth place and taking several seconds out of his GC rivals. He began his comeback on stage 17, an individual time trial, finishing a surprising sixth place and advancing himself from eighth place overall to fifth place overall. On the penultimate stage, Quintana joined a breakaway late in the stage with Rafal Majka to end the race in fourth place overall, just 30 seconds off the podium.

2016 season

In November 2015 it was announced that Quintana would compete in the Tour de France, the Olympic road race and the Vuelta a España in 2016 and that he would start his season at the Tour de San Luis. He finished third in San Luis behind his brother, Dayer, who took the win. He went on to take the general classification at the Volta a Catalunya, becoming the third Colombian to win the race and the first to do so since Hernán Buenahora in 1998. Two weeks later, and struggling with the effects of illness, he finished 3rd in the overall classification of the Tour of the Basque Country.

Quintana finished 3rd in the general classification of the Tour de France after suffering from allergies throughout much of the tour. Movistar Team won the team classification for the second year in a row. After the tour Quintana stated, "I won't take part in the Olympic Games. I want to recover and be ready for the Vuelta a España to give emotions and animate the race.”

Quintana succeeded with this strategy and won the Vuelta a España ahead of Chris Froome with the Colombian Esteban Chaves finishing third. Quintana had gained over 2 and a half minutes over Froome on Stage 15 when he and Alberto Contador (Trek–Segafredo) attacked together from kilometre 10 and blew the race apart, isolating Froome from his Team Sky teammates. Whilst Froome fought back and managed to gain back nearly all he had lost in a dominant victory on the stage 19 individual time trial to Calp, Quintana was able to follow several attacks by Froome on Stage 20, the final mountain stage to Alto de Aitana, to secure overall victory by 1:23 over Froome. By doing so, Quintana became the second Colombian after Lucho Herrera in 1987 to win the Vuelta.

2017 season

Quintana at the 2017 Giro d'Italia

In December 2016, Quintana confirmed that he would target both the 2017 Giro d'Italia and 2017 Tour de France.

In March 2017, Qunitana took overall victory at Tirreno–Adriatico for the second time in three years. Quintana took the race lead after winning the queen stage of the race to Monte Terminillo, and maintained it to the end of the race, ultimately winning by 25 seconds over

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At the Giro d'Italia, Quintana won Stage 9, the second mountain top finish stage of the race, arriving at the finish in Blockhaus 24 seconds ahead of Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) and Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) to take the overall race lead. However, Quintana could only finish 23rd on stage 10, a 39.8 km (25 mi) individual time trial (ITT) from Foligno to Montefalco, 2 minutes and 53 seconds behind Dumoulin who won the stage. By doing so, Dumoulin took the overall race lead by 2 minutes and 23 seconds over Quintana. Dumoulin won Stage 14, which featured a mountain top finish at Santuario di Oropa to extend his lead over Quintana by a further 14 seconds. On Stage 16, Dumoulin experienced stomach problems and had to take a comfort break at the foot of the Umbrail Pass; none of the other contenders waited for Dumoulin and he finished more than two minutes down on stage winner Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), with his lead over Quintana reduced to just 31 seconds. Dumoulin defended his lead until the stage 19 mountain finish in Piancavallo, where he crossed the line over a minute behind Quintana, who reclaimed the Maglia rosa. Quintana would put fifteen more seconds into Dumoulin the following day on stage 20. Quintana began Stage 21, the final stage, a 29-kilometre (18 mi)-long individual time trial from Monza to Milan in the race lead, but was overhauled by Dumoulin, who's second place on the stage took him from fourth to first place in the general classification. Quintana finished second overall, dashing his hopes of winning a Giro-Tour double.

Quintana rode the 2017 Tour de France, but lost time on the first two mountain stages. Quintana lost even more time on the Col de Peyresourde on Stage 12, finishing more than two minutes down on stage winner Romain Bardet of (AG2R La Mondiale). This left him more than four minutes off the race lead and he admitted after the stage that his Giro-Tour double bid 'has not worked out'. Quintana ultimately finished 12th overall, over 15 minutes down on the winner Chris Froome (Team Sky).

2018 season

The main goal of Quintana's 2018 season was the Tour de France. He finished 2nd in the new colombian stage race, Colombia Oro y Paz. His first race in Europe was Volta a Catalunya, in which he finished 2nd overall, 29 seconds behind teammate Alejandro Valverde. To prepare for the cobblestone stage in the Tour, Quintana chose to ride Dwaars door Vlaanderen, and finished in 60th position. A week later, Quintana started in the Tour of the Basque Country. He advanced to 5th position overall on the final stage, after placing 5th on the stage. Quintana then prepared for the Tour by going on altitude camp, and returned back to racing for the Tour de Suisse. On stage 7 to Arosa, Quintana attacked with 30 km to go, in what seemed like a mission impossible. However he managed to reach the breakaway, pass it, and also keep the peloton behind him to take his first win of the 2018 season. Quintana's performance on stage 7 meant he was 2nd overall before the last stage which was a 34 km Time Trial. The last stage saw Quintana dropping to 3rd overall.

Already on stage 1 of the Tour de France, Quintana was in problems as he punctured on both tyres, 3.5 km to the finish line. This meant that he lost 1 minute and 15 seconds to the other GC contenders. The situation also sparked debate as no Movistar teammate was there to help Quintana. He only got help in the last kilometer when Costa Rican, Andrey Amador came to the rescue, however it was to late. Movistar finished 10th on the Team Time Trial on stage 3, losing almost a minute BMC, and Team Sky. Quintana managed to finish together with the other GC contenders on the first challenging uphill finish on stage 6 to Mûr de Bretagne. He had to many people's surprise no problems when riding the cobblestone stage, and lost no time to the GC contenders on that stage. But when the peloton the Alps, Quintana suffered time losses in the General classification. He made some small attacks, however they were all brought back by Team Sky, and Quintana got dropped very quickly after being caught. On the shortest stage of the Tour, Quintana bounced back in brilliant fashion and won the stage. His attack looked very similar to the one in Tour de Suisse just a month ago. He attacked on the bottom of the last climb, and quickly got a huge gap. He caught the last rider from the breakaway Tanel Kangert, and rode away in the distance. No one had the power to match him on that stage, and Quintana advanced to 5th place in the General classification after the stage.

Career achievements

Major results

2009

1st Time trial, National Under–23 Road Championships

7th Subida a Urkiola

2010

1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stages 7 & 8

2nd Overall Vuelta al Valle del Cauca

2011

1st Overall Circuito de Combita

1st Stage 1

1st Mountains classification Volta a Catalunya

2012

1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia

1st Stage 1

1st Overall Route du Sud

1st Stage 3

1st Giro dell'Emilia

1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

2nd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid

1st Young rider classification

2013

1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country

1st Points classification

1st Stage 4

1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos

1st Stage 5

2nd Overall Tour de France

1st Mountains classification

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 20

4th Overall Volta a Catalunya

1st Stage 3

7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

2014

1st Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Young rider classification

1st Stages 16 & 19 (ITT)

1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 3

1st Overall Tour de San Luis

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 4

Vuelta a España

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

Held after Stage 9

2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Young rider classification

5th Overall Volta a Catalunya

6th UCI World Tour

2015

1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 5

2nd Overall Tour de France

1st Young rider classification

2nd Overall Route du Sud

3rd UCI World Tour

3rd Overall Tour de San Luis

4th Overall Vuelta a España

4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

8th Overall Tour de Romandie

2016

1st Overall Vuelta a España

1st Combination classification

1st Stage 10

Held after Stages 11–12

1st Overall Volta a Catalunya

1st Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 2

1st Overall Route du Sud

1st Stage 2b (ITT)

2nd UCI World Tour

3rd Overall Tour de France

3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country

3rd Overall Tour de San Luis

4th Road race, National Road Championships

2017

1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 4

1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

1st Stage 4

2nd Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 9

Held after Stages 9 & 19–20

2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias

1st Stage 2

4th Milano–Torino

9th Giro di Lombardia

2018

1st Stage 17 Tour de France

2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya

2nd Overall Colombia Oro y Paz

3rd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 7

5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	1	—	—	2	—
Tour de France	—	—	2	—	2	3	12	IP
Vuelta a España	—	36	—	DNF	4	1	—	—
Major stage race general classification results
Race	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Paris–Nice	—	—	15	—	—	—	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	—	—	—	2	1	—	1	—
Volta a Catalunya	103	26	4	5	—	1	—	2
Tour of the Basque Country	—	—	1	—	4	3	—	5
Tour de Romandie	—	—	—	—	8	1	—	—
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	38	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de Suisse	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

External links

• Nairo Quintana at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Nairo Quintana at CQ Ranking
• Nairo Quintana at ProCyclingStats