Nairo Quintana

Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (born 4 February 1990 in Tunja ) is a Colombian road racing cyclist.

Childhood and youth

Nairo Quintana comes from a farming family from Cómbita in Colombia, 2800 meters high in the Andes, which lived from the sale of fruit and vegetables. When he was seven years old, his father had a serious accident with a truck, had to undergo surgery and has since been physically handicapped total of 14 times. The five children had to help every day in the yard. Short of money, the parents were unable to pay for Nairo the school bus, and he had to drive every day with a 20 -pound bike to school after Arcabuco. A route was 25 kilometers back and led them on an eight percent uphill gradient.

His younger brother Dayer Quintana is also professional cyclists.

Sports career

Nairo Quintana, a climbing specialist, his career began in 2009 at the Columbian Continental team Boyaca it para Vivirla. In his first year there, he was in Rivera Second stage on the sixth section of the U23 host the Vuelta a Colombia. In the Colombian championship in Barranquilla Quintana was national champion in the individual time trial of the U23 class.

At the Tour de France 2013 Quintana made ​​his international breakthrough. After a defect and a large residue of his time team captains Alejandro Valverde, his Movistar team focused from now on him. Quintana attacked in several stages and was soon to be the best young rider out, which earned him winning the White Jersey. After he had reached the second stage rank in the stage on Mont Ventoux behind the eventual overall winner Froome Tour, he won the penultimate stage to Annecy - Semnoz and eventually finished second in the overall standings of the Tour in second place. He also decided the mountain classification for itself.

Achievements

  • Colombia Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial ( U23 )
  • Tour de l' Avenir and two stages
  • Vuelta a Murcia and a stage
  • Critérium du Dauphiné stage a
  • A stage in the Vuelta a España ( team time trial )
  • Giro dell'Emilia
  • A stage Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
  • Vuelta al País Vasco and a stage
  • A stage of the Tour de France
  • Mountain classification and young Classification Tour de France
  • Burgos - tour and a stage

Grand Tour Ranking

Team

  • Boyaca 2009 Para Vivirla
  • 2010 - 2011 Café de Colombia - Colombia it Pasión
  • 2012 - now Movistar
2013 Tour de France King of the Mountains Vuelta a Burgos General classification in the Giro d'Italia General classification in the Tour de France 2012 Tour de France 472-Colombia Vicente Trueba Pierre Brambilla Fausto Coppi Louison Bobet Charly Gaul Gastone Nencini Imerio Massignan Lucien Van Impe Domingo Perurena Giancarlo Bellini Giovanni Battaglin Bernard Vallet Bernard Hinault Gert-Jan Theunisse Richard Virenque Christophe Rinero Santiago Botero Laurent Jalabert Michael Rasmussen Bernhard Kohl Anthony Charteau Thomas Voeckler Francesco Moser Dietrich Thurau Henk Lubberding Peter Winnen Fabio Parra Andrew Hampsten Fabrice Philipot Gilles Delion Marco Pantani Jan Ullrich Francisco Mancebo Ivan Basso Yaroslav Popovych Damiano Cunego Alberto Contador Pierre Rolland (cyclist)
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