Rider Profile
Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
EF Education-EasyPost
Personal Details:
Nationality
Portugal
Date of birth
05/10/1986
Teams history:
- 2024 - EF Education-EasyPost
- 2023 - Intermarché-Circus-Wanty
- 2022 - UAE Team Emirates
- 2021 - UAE Team Emirates
- 2020 - UAE Team Emirates
- 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
Blogs
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Road prep and adapting to new rules as Life Time Grand Prix begins at Fuego XL mountain bike event
Lauren De Crescenzo uses The Growler for confidence boost ride ahead of prestigious off-road series -
'Untapped gold' in store for inaugural RADL GRVL in South Australia
Nathan Haas calls gravel course 'raw, fast, exciting' after pre-ride with co-founder Valtteri Bottas -
UCI Gravel Worlds - new course, same criticisms cast doubt on event
Nathan Haas hears feedback from fellow riders on course elevation being 'selective without being stupid' -
Nathan Haas blog: We need to talk about the Unbound mud pit
Was it wrong to not re-route the course? -
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'