Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
UAE Team Emirates
Personal Details:
Nationality
Portugal
Date of birth
05/10/1986
Teams history:
- 2019 - UAE Team Emirates
- 2018 - UAE Team Emirates
- 2017 - UAE Team Emirates
- 2016 - Lampre - Merida
- 2015 - Lampre-Merida
- 2014 - Lampre-Merida
- 2013 - Movistar Team
- 2012 - Movistar Team
- 2011 - Movistar Team
- 2010 - Caisse d'Epargne
- 2009 - Caisse d'Epargne
- 2008 - Benfica
- 2007 - Benfica
Biography:
Key Results
1st UCI Road World Championships 2013
Tour de France: 3 individual stages, 2011, '13
1st Tour de Suisse, 2012-14
1st Abu Dhabi Tour 2017
1st Four Days of Dunkirk 2009
1st Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 2011
1st GP de Montréal 2011
1st Portuguese National Time Trial Championships, 2010, '13
1st Portuguese National Road Race Champion 2015
2nd Overall Paris-Nice 2014
2nd Overall Tour of Oman 2017
2nd GP de Montréal 2014
2nd 2nd GP Ouest-France 2012
3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2016
3rd Il Lombardia 2014
3rd overall Tour de Romandie 2012-14
3rd overall Critérium du Dauphiné 2015
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Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio blog: Lucky turn
'I’m hoping the Worlds TT will be the moment this season where I don’t have bad luck' -
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Annemiek van Vleuten blog: World Championships
Dutch woman aiming to repeat rainbow jersey performance in Yorkshire -
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Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio blog: Sharing Pauliena's result in San Sebastian
'Typically, the race did not go as planned but it did go perfectly' -
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Chad Haga blog: Five days of suffering in the Tour de France
Sunweb rider out-gunned in individual time trial -
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Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio blog: Keep Fighting. Period.
'We can be resilient and rise above whatever challenges come our way'
