Rider Profile
Nairo Quintana
Movistar Team
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Movistar Team
- 2022 - Team Arkéa-Samsic
- 2021 - Team Arkea-Samsic
- 2020 - Team Arkea-Samsic
- 2019 - Movistar Team
- 2018 - Movistar Team
- 2017 - Movistar Team
- 2016 - Movistar Team
- 2015 - Movistar Team
- 2014 - Movistar Team
- 2013 - Movistar Team
- 2012 - Movistar Team
- 2011 - Colombia es Pasion - Cafe de Colombia
- 2009 - Boyaca Es Para Vivirla
Biography:
Nairo Quintana has been one of the top climbing talents and most-decorated GC riders in the current peloton since he moved to the WorldTour with Movistar in 2012. He has two Grand Tour titles to his name - the 2014 Giro d'Italia and the 2016 Vuelta a España. Other major wins on his palmarès include wins at Itzulia Basque Country, the Volta a Catalunya, Tirreno-Adriatico, and the Tour de Romandie, while he has also taken three Tour de France podium spots and a total of eight Grand Tour stage wins.
The Colombian, born February 4, 1990 in Boyaca, began his pro career with ProConti team Cafe de Colombia-Colombia Es Pasion in 2011 after the Colombian squad moved from Continental level. The majority of his career, and the team with which he achieved many of his best results, though, was Spanish team Movistar. Racing with them from 2012 to 2019, he formed part of the famous Movistar powerhouse alongside a combination of Richard Carapaz, Alejandro Valverde, and Mikel Landa.
Quintana's 2022 season was the final of three with Arkéa-Samsic and looked like it would be his best with the French squad until his Tour DSQ. Earlier in the year, he won the Tour de le Provence and Tour du Var, and also finished top five in Paris-Nice and the Volta a Catalunya.
His career on the world stage was shuttered in 2023 when he could not find a contract, which followed two positive tests for tramadol at the 2022 Tour de France, where he was disqualified from sixth place. At the end of the year, however, he joined former team Movistar on a one-year deal and race through 2024.
Top results
2023
🥉 Colombian National Championships road race
2022
🥇 Tour de le Provence
🥇 Tour du Var
2021
🥇 Vuelta Asturias Julio Alvarez Mendo
2020
🥇 Tour de le Provence
🥇 Tour du Var
🥉 Tour de l'Ain
Fourth one stage at Tour de France
2019
🥇 one stage and eighth on GC at Tour de France (2013, 2018, 2019)
🥇 one stage and fourth on GC at Vuelta a España (2016, 2019)
2017
🥇 one stage at Giro d'Italia
🥇 Tirreno-Adriatico
🥈 Giro d'Italia
fourth Milano-Torino
2016
🥇 Vuelta a España and second in sprint classification
🥇 Volta a Catalunya
🥇 Tour de Romandie
2015
🥇 Tirreno-Adriatico
2014
🥇 two stages at the Giro d'Italia
🥇 Giro d'Italia and best young rider classification
🥇 Vuelta a Burgos
2013
🥇 Itzulia Basque Country
Related Articles
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By Alasdair Fotheringham published
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By Laura Weislo published
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By Laura Weislo published
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Just like starting over – Bernal and Quintana begin again at revived Tour Colombia
By Barry Ryan published
Preview Cavendish takes novel approach to new season with spell at altitude
Nairo Quintana to mark return from exile at Tour Colombia
By Laura Weislo published
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Martinez and Peñuela capture ITT titles at Colombian Nationals
By Jackie Tyson published
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Blogs
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Nathan Haas blog: We need to talk about the Unbound mud pit
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Ellen van Dijk - Leading by example
'I have the chance to show the world how normal it should be to perform at a top level as a mother' -
Rukhsar Habibzai - The day I left home
'It is a story shared by thousands of Afghans. It is the day we left home, left our souls and left Afghanistan'