Nairo Quintana

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nairo Quintana
Occupation	Cyclist
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1990(1990-02-04)
Age	34
Birthplace	Cómbita
Country	Colombia
Birth City	Boyacá Department
Horoscope	Aquarius

Nairo Quintana Biography

Nairo Quintana is one of the most popular and richest Cyclist who was born on February 4, 1990 in Cómbita, Boyacá Department, Colombia. After leading the mountains classification, he was the winner of the 2010 Tour de l’Avenir as a racing cyclist. He finished second in 2013 Tour de France.

In several international competitions, he competed against He competed against Bradley Wiggins in several international competitions..

He started his career on the team “Boyacá es para Vivirla”. In 2010, Quintana won the Tour de l’Avenir as part of the team “Café de Colombia – Colombia es Pasión”, proving to be one of the great prospects for the future of Colombian cycling.

After the end of the Tour, Froome, Quintana, Valverde, and Vincenzo Nibali, the top four finishers in the Tour de France, announced their intentions to race the following grand tour, the Vuelta a España. However, early on, Quintana did not look like he was on his best form. On stage 11, the queen stage, he lost three minutes to race leader Fabio Aru, falling to 9th place overall. Quintana admitted that he was suffering from a sickness and that he was considering abandoning the Vuelta. However, he never did and came back to form on stage 14, finishing in sixth place and taking several seconds out of his overall rivals. He 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. On the penultimate stage, Quintana joined a breakaway late in the stage with Rafał Majka to end the race in fourth place overall, just 30 seconds off the podium.

He was raised in Tunja, Colombia in difficult financial circumstances.

Nairo Quintana Net Worth

Nairo Quintana is one of the richest Cyclist from Colombia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nairo Quintana 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Even though his family was poor, they bought him a mountainbike so that he could ride the nine-mile journey to school each day.

He was awarded the Young Riders Jersey at the 2013 Tour de France.

Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Arkéa–Samsic.

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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. After the tour Quintana stated, “I won’t take part in the Olympic Games. I want to recover and be ready for the Vuelta a España to give emotions and animate the race.” Quintana succeeded with this strategy and won the Vuelta a España ahead of Chris Froome with the Colombian Esteban Chaves finishing third. Quintana had gained over 2 and a half minutes over Froome on Stage 15 when he and Alberto Contador (Trek–Segafredo) attacked together from 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into the stage and blew the race apart, isolating Froome from his Team Sky teammates. 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, 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. By doing so, Quintana became the second Colombian after Luis Herrera in 1987 to win the Vuelta.

Facts & Trivia

Nairo Ranked on the list of most popular Cyclist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Colombia. Nairo Quintana celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.

At the Tour de France, Quintana attacked on the Col de Pailheres during Stage 8 and became the first man to cross the highest pass that year. He was later overtaken, on the stage’s penultimate climb, by race favourite Chris Froome. 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, Quintana again attacked early on and only the race leader Froome was able to match him, eventually dropping him in the final 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) of the climb after they had raced up much of it together. As a result, Quintana was able to advance to sixth place in the overall standings. Stage 18 for the first time including doing the famous and iconic Alpe d’Huez climb twice. Quintana’s 4th-place finish on stage 18 – including two ascents of the climb to Alpe d’Huez – moved him into 3rd place in the overall standings. In stage 20, he did not just defend his 3rd place, he attacked Froome, riding away from him in the last kilometre during the climb to Annecy-Semnoz. Quintana won the stage over Joaquim Rodríguez and Froome, moving securely into second place overall where he finished the Tour. He also won the young rider classification and the mountains classification. His second place in the general classification was the best result for a Colombian or Latin-American rider in the Tour de France, and the first Tour debutant to finish on the podium since Jan Ullrich in 1996. After the Tour, Quintana went on to win the Vuelta a Burgos, where he won stage 5 of the race after dropping Vincenzo Nibali on the final climb.

Top Facts about Nairo Quintana

1. Nairo Quintana is a Colombian professional road cyclist.
2. He was born on February 4, 1990 in Boyacá, Colombia.
3. Quintana has won the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España.
4. He finished second in the Tour de France twice (2013, 2015).
5. Quintana is known for his climbing ability and aggressive racing style.
6. He turned professional in 2009 with the Colombian team Boyacá es Para Vivirla.
7. In 2020, he joined Team Arkéa–Samsic after leaving Movistar Team.
8. Quintana has also won several other prestigious races including the Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Romandie.
9. He is considered one of Colombia’s greatest cyclists of all time.
10. As of August 2021, he is ranked #15 in the UCI World Ranking for men’s road cycling.

Why is Nairo Quintana famous?

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.

Where is Nairo Quintana now?

Nairo Quintana has not ruled out a return to Movistar next year as he enters the third and final season of his current deal with Arkéa-Samsic , the team he joined after leaving the Spanish squad he had previously spent eight years with.

Is Nairo Quintana still racing?

Don’t miss out on the latest CyclingTips updates. A resurgent Nairo Quintana has been on incredible form in the opening weeks of the 2022 season , showing early signs of top-tier condition in a year he’s targeting both Grand Tour success and promotion to WorldTour with his Arkéa Samsic team.

What languages does Nairo Quintana speak?

Respect. The only words Swift could get out were “oh my God,” with his Yorkshire accent as strong as the stage’s crosswinds. There wasn’t a conversation between the two, Quintana speaks no English and very little French , Swift’s Spanish is non-existent.

Who is the highest paid cyclist?

A report published this weekend by Italian sports finance outlet Calcio e Finanza (opens in new tab) suggests Tadej Pogačar is earning €6 million a year, making him the sport’s highest paid cyclist, if the data is accurate. The study shows the top 20 salaries for male pro cyclists in 2022.