70 Facts About Nairo Quintana

Nairo Quintana is a competent time triallist, making him a consistent contender for general classification at stage races.

Nairo Quintana started his career on the team "Boyaca es para Vivirla".

In 2012, Nairo Quintana moved to Europe to join the Spanish Movistar Team.

Nairo Quintana won the overall classification in the Vuelta a Murcia.

Nairo Quintana held on to his solo lead in the descent leading to Morzine.

Nairo Quintana made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Espana, where he was one of Alejandro Valverde's key climbing domestiques as Valverde finished second overall.

Nairo Quintana took the overall win in the final time trial by finishing second behind Tony Martin, gaining enough time over Team Sky's Sergio Henao to take the leader's jersey from him.

At the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana attacked on the Col de Pailheres during Stage 8 and became the first man to cross the highest pass that year.

Nairo Quintana was later overtaken, on the stage's penultimate climb, by race favourite Chris Froome.

Nairo Quintana nonetheless took the lead of the young rider classification and received the award for that stage's most aggressive rider.

On stage 15 to Mont Ventoux, Nairo Quintana again attacked early on and only the race leader Froome was able to match him, eventually dropping him in the final 2 kilometres of the climb after they had raced up much of it together.

Nairo Quintana won the stage over Joaquim Rodriguez and Froome, moving securely into second place overall where he finished the Tour.

Nairo Quintana won the young rider classification and the mountains classification.

At the Giro, Nairo Quintana entered the race in weakened condition due to his earlier illness.

In Stage 6, Nairo Quintana was caught up behind a huge crash as the peloton approached the finishing climb of Monte Cassino, which saw him sit 2 minutes and 8 seconds behind leader Michael Matthews.

In stage 19, Nairo Quintana flew up the Monte Grappa, winning the mountain time trial by 17 seconds over Fabio Aru to extend his overall lead over Uran to 3 minutes and 7 seconds.

Nairo Quintana maintained his lead on Monte Zoncolan on Stage 20 and the final stage into Trieste.

Two weeks before the Vuelta a Espana, Nairo Quintana won the Vuelta a Burgos, winning stage 3 and coming in second in the final time trial to give himself enough time over second placed Daniel Moreno.

Nairo Quintana crashed again at the beginning of the next stage and withdrew from the race due to a broken collarbone.

Nairo Quintana started his 2015 season at the Tour de San Luis, finishing third overall.

Nairo Quintana was scheduled to ride the Vuelta a Andalucia, but a crash at the Colombian National Road Race Championships caused his withdrawal.

Nairo Quintana continued his Tour de France preparation by racing the Tour de Romandie and the Tour of the Basque Country, finishing in 8th and 4th respectively.

Nairo Quintana then raced the Route du Sud where he battled Alberto Contador on stage 3 before finishing 2nd overall.

On stage ten, the first mountain day, Nairo Quintana was the only rival that could stay with Froome, finishing another minute behind him.

Nairo Quintana then tried to distance himself from the yellow jersey in the last week of the Tour, advancing himself into second place overall on stage 17.

Nairo Quintana gained time on Froome all the way to the finish, finishing second on the stage.

Nairo Quintana won the white jersey, with his Movistar Team winning the team classification.

However, early on, Nairo Quintana did not look like he was on his best form.

Nairo Quintana admitted that he was suffering from a sickness and that he was considering abandoning the Vuelta.

Nairo Quintana began his comeback on stage 17, an individual time trial, finishing a surprising sixth place and advancing himself from eighth place to fifth place overall.

In November 2015 it was announced that Nairo Quintana would compete in the Tour de France, the Olympic road race and the Vuelta a Espana in 2016 and that he would start his season at the Tour de San Luis.

Nairo Quintana finished third in San Luis behind his brother, Dayer, who took the win.

Nairo Quintana went on to take the general classification at the Volta a Catalunya, becoming the third Colombian to win the race and the first to do so since Hernan Buenahora in 1998.

Nairo Quintana finished 3rd in the general classification of the Tour de France after suffering from allergies throughout much of the tour; Movistar Team won the team classification for the second year in a row.

Whilst Froome fought back and managed to gain back nearly all he had lost in a dominant victory on the stage 19 individual time trial to Calp, Nairo Quintana was able to follow several attacks by Froome on Stage 20, the final mountain stage to Alto de Aitana, to secure overall victory by 1:23 over Froome.

In December 2016, Nairo Quintana confirmed that he would target both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in 2017.

Nairo Quintana took the race lead after winning the queen stage of the race to Monte Terminillo, and maintained it to the end of the race, ultimately winning by 25 seconds over BMC Racing Team rider Rohan Dennis.

At the Giro d'Italia, Nairo Quintana won Stage 9, the second mountain top finish stage of the race, arriving at the finish in Blockhaus 24 seconds ahead of Thibaut Pinot and Tom Dumoulin to take the overall race lead.

On Stage 16, Dumoulin experienced stomach problems and had to take a comfort break at the foot of the Umbrail Pass; none of the other contenders waited for Dumoulin and he finished more than two minutes down on stage winner Vincenzo Nibali, with his lead over Nairo Quintana reduced to just 31 seconds.

Dumoulin defended his lead until the stage 19 mountain finish in Piancavallo, where he crossed the line over a minute behind Nairo Quintana, who reclaimed the Maglia rosa.

Nairo Quintana put fifteen more seconds into Dumoulin the following day on stage 20.

Nairo Quintana began Stage 21, the final stage, a 29-kilometre -long individual time trial from Monza to Milan in the race lead, but was overhauled by Dumoulin, as second place on the stage took him from fourth to first place in the general classification.

Nairo Quintana rode the Tour de France, but lost time on the first two mountain stages.

Nairo Quintana lost even more time on the Col de Peyresourde on Stage 12, finishing more than two minutes down on stage winner Romain Bardet of AG2R La Mondiale.

Nairo Quintana ultimately finished 12th overall, over 15 minutes down on the winner Chris Froome.

Nairo Quintana finished 2nd in the new Colombian stage race, Colombia Oro y Paz.

Nairo Quintana then prepared for the Tour by going to an altitude camp, and returned to racing for the Tour de Suisse.

On stage 7 to Arosa, Nairo Quintana attacked with 30 kilometres to go, and managed to reach the breakaway, pass it, and keep the peloton behind him to take his first win of the season.

Nairo Quintana's performance meant he was 2nd overall before the final 34-kilometre individual time trial; he ultimately dropped to third overall.

At stage 1 of the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana already had issues as he punctured both tyres, 3.5 kilometres from the finish line.

Nairo Quintana managed to finish together with the other overall contenders on the first challenging uphill finish on stage 6 to Mur-de-Bretagne.

Nairo Quintana had to many people's surprise no problems when riding the cobblestone stage, and lost no time to the overall contenders on that stage.

Nairo Quintana made some small attacks, however they were all brought back by Team Sky, and Quintana got dropped very quickly after being caught.

Nairo Quintana's attack looked very similar to the one in the Tour de Suisse a month prior; he attacked on the bottom of the last climb, and quickly got a huge gap.

Nairo Quintana caught the last rider from the breakaway Tanel Kangert, and rode away in the distance.

Nairo Quintana looked strong at the start of the Vuelta a Espana, and proved to be the best general classification rider on stage 13 to La Camperona.

However his form dropped, and when the race hit the third week, Nairo Quintana dropped out of the podium after the Time trial on stage 16.

Nairo Quintana lost even more time on the following day to Balcon de Bizkaia.

On stage 19 Nairo Quintana was only 6th place overall and had to attack if he wanted to win the race.

Nairo Quintana started his 2019 season in Argentina at the Vuelta a San Juan, where he finished 8th overall, with his usual domestique Winner Anacona taking the overall win.

Nairo Quintana was with the front group on the final climb on stage 6 to Alto de Palmas, before he was pushed off his bike after interference with a spectator.

Nairo Quintana bridged the gap to the leaders before sprinting past Ivan Sosa and Miguel Angel Lopez inside the final kilometre.

Nairo Quintana rode at the front of the race for almost 25 kilometres before eventual stage winner Ion Izagirre attacked and got away.

At one point Nairo Quintana had the virtual race lead over Bernal, but with no cooperation from his companions, the lead shrank to only 4 seconds to Bernal at the finish line; thus, Nairo Quintana finished 2nd overall in the race.

Nairo Quintana competed in the 2020 Tour de France, where he placed 17th overall.

Nairo Quintana entered the 2021 Tour de France and finished below average by comparison to his high standards.

Nairo Quintana held the King of the Mountains polka dot jersey for a few stages in the second week, but did not win any stages and finished 28th.

Nairo Quintana survived the climbs at Peyragudes and Hautacam better than most as the Tour crossed the Pyrenees and remained 5th prior to the final time trial.

Nairo Quintana dropped one place after the ITT, and ended with his sixth top 10 Tour result in the past decade.

However, on 17 August 2022, the Union Cycliste Internationale announced that Nairo Quintana was retrospectively disqualified from the 2022 Tour de France over detected tramadol usage.