Nairo Quintana

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Quintana and the second or maternal family name is Rojas.
Nairo Quintana
Quintana at the 2019 Paris–Nice
Personal information
Full nameNairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Nickname
  • The Lion[1]
  • El Cóndor de los Andes
  • Nair Force KINGtana
  • Nairoman
Born (1990-02-04) 4 February 1990 (age 34)
Cómbita, Boyacá, Colombia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)[2]
Weight58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb)[2]
Team information
Current teamMovistar Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Professional teams
2009Boyacá es Para Vivirla
2010–2011Café de Colombia–Colombia es Pasión
2012–2019Movistar Team[3][4]
2020–2022Arkéa–Samsic[5]
2024–Movistar Team
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Mountains classification (2013)
Young rider classification (2013, 2015)
3 individual stages (2013, 2018, 2019)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (2014)
Young rider classification (2014)
3 individual stages (2014, 2017)
Vuelta a España
General classification (2016)
Combination classification (2016)
2 individual stages (2016, 2019)
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)
Tour de la Provence (2020, 2022)

One-day races and Classics

Giro dell'Emilia (2012)

Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[6]

Nicknamed "Nairoman" and "El Cóndor de los Andes", 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 competent time triallist, 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 2nd place overall in the Tour de France of 2013 and 2015. In addition to his two Grand Tour victories he has also placed in the top 10 on twelve occasions, six of which were on the podium.

His multiple wins in other major stage races, leading to high UCI WorldTour ranking placements[7] 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 rode for the Movistar Team with Nairo between 2014 and 2018, and again at Arkéa–Samsic between 2020 and 2022.[5]

  1. ^ "Nairo Quintana: Against all the odds". Cycling Weekly. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Nairo Quintana". Movistar Team. Movistar Team. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  3. ^ Stokes, Shane (4 October 2011). "Former Tour de l'Avenir winner Nairo Quintana signs with Movistar". VeloNation. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b Fotheringham, Alasdair; Fletcher, Patrick (2 September 2019). "Quintana confirmed for Arkéa-Samsic in 2020". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 December 2019. Quintana's brother, Dayer, will also join, along with Winner Anacona, a fellow Colombian and key ally at Movistar, and Diego Rosa, who has ridden for Team Ineos for the past two years.
  6. ^ "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  7. ^ "UCI World Ranking". Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2020-04-12.