Fernando Gaviria

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Gaviria and the second or maternal family name is Rendon.

Fernando Gaviria Rendon

Fernando Gaviria (2018)
Personal information
Born	(1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 24) La Ceja (Antioquia), Colombia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team	Quick-Step Floors
Discipline	Road, track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2013–2015	Coldeportes-Claro
Professional team(s)
→ 2015	Etixx–Quick-Step (stagiaire)
2016–	Quick-Step Floors
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (2018) Giro d'Italia Points classification (2017) 4 individual stages (2017) One-Day Races and Classics GP Impanis-Van Petegem (2016) Paris–Tours (2016)
Medal record World Championships 2015 Yvelines Omnium 2016 London Omnium World Junior Championships 2012 Invercargill Omnium 2012 Invercargill Madison

Fernando Gaviria Rendon (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist currently racing for UCI WorldTeam Quick-Step Floors. He is well known as a sprinter. Riding for the Colombian national cycling team, Gaviria came to international attention at the 2015 Tour de San Luis, where he beat former world champion Mark Cavendish in two sprint finishes. His first major Grand Tour wins came at the 2017 Giro d'Italia. He is the brother of track cyclist Juliana Gaviria.^[1]
His nickname is "Quetzal splendente", from the brightful and colourful South American bird Quetzal. Its colours recall his world championship titles, his Colombia and "la maglia Ciclamino" won at Giro d'Italia. (Nick-name from the Cycling blog "Le Tour de Force")

Contents

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  1 Career
  
  
  
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    1.1 Early career
    
  
  
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    1.2 Etixx-Quick Step (2015-2018)
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 Career achievements
  
  
  
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    2.1 Track
    
  
  
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    2.2 Road
    
  
  
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    2.3 Grand Tour general classification results timeline
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 References
  

Career

Early career

Gaviria taking a sprint victory at the 2015 Tour de San Luis

Before his road career, Gaviria won the omnium and madison events at the 2012 UCI Juniors Track World Championships.^[2][3] In 2014, he won the under-23 Pan-American road race.^[4][5] He also competed in the 2014 Tour de l'Avenir. Although he did not win a stage, he won the bunch sprint behind the breakaway on the first stage^[6] and ended the race second in the points competition.^[7][8] Later that year he won the omnium in the London round of the 2014–15 UCI Track Cycling World Cup.^[9]

Gaviria's first major road cycling winning streak started in late 2015 on Tour de San Luis, one of the major early-season cycling races. He won a surprise victory in the first stage of the race, opening his sprint early and beating 2011 world champion Mark Cavendish of the Etixx–Quick-Step team into second place. Cavendish said after the race that he had not heard of Gaviria before the race.^[10] Gaviria then won the third stage of the race, again beating Cavendish into second place.^[11] Cavendish won the final stage of the event, with Gaviria finishing a close second.^[12]

Following these high-profile victories, there were reports that several UCI World Tour teams were seeking to sign Gaviria, including AG2R La Mondiale, though he committed his 2015 season to riding with the Colombian national team.^[13] Later reports suggested that his most likely 2016 team was Cavendish's own Etixx–Quick-Step team.^[8] It was also revealed that Gaviria had been recommended in 2014 to Patrick Lefevere, the manager of Etixx–Quick-Step, but the team declined to sign him. Following Gaviria's success at the Tour de San Luis, Lefevere called this a "mistake".^[14] In February 2015, Lefevere announced that Gaviria would be undergoing tests with Etixx–Quick-Step after the 2015 UCI Track World Championships, a further move towards a contract for 2016. Lefevere also said that such a contract would not prevent Gaviria competing in the 2016 Olympic Games.^[15] Following these tests, Gaviria signed a contract for 2016 with Etixx–Quick-Step, along with fellow Colombian Rodrigo Contreras. Gaviria's plans to ride in the 2016 Olympic Games were affirmed by Lefevere; he also suggested that Gaviria might ride as a stagiaire for the team during 2015.^[16]

In February 2015, Gaviria competed for Colombia in the track World Championships in the omnium competition. Although he won none of the six events, he was consistent throughout. In the concluding points race, he was able to gain an early lap on the field, giving him a large advantage; he was then able to mark his closest rival, Elia Viviani, and secured a comfortable overall victory to win the rainbow jersey.^[17][18]

Etixx-Quick Step (2015-2018)

Gaviria after winning Stage 4 of the 2017 Tour of Britain

Gaviria made his debut for Etixx-Quick Step as a stagiaire in August 2015 at the 2015 RideLondon–Surrey Classic.^[19] He finished in eighth position, the highest-placed Etixx-Quickstep rider.^[20] His next race for the team was in the Czech Cycling Tour, where Etixx-Quick Step won the first stage, a team time trial.^[21] The following day Gaviria won his first individual stage victory for the team, winning a reduced bunch sprint.^[22] After this race, it was Tour of Britain, where Gaviria managed to take one stage win ahead of several world class sprinters including André Greipel and Elia Viviani.

2016 began almost as strongly as the previous season. He won the Team Time Trial with Etixx–Quick-Step and also took another stage at the Tour de San Luis. He crashed out later in the race preventing another victory. In February he won a stage and the points classification at the new race Tour La Provence. In early March he became the first rider to win two Gold medals in the Omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships by defending his title from the previous year.^[23] He won stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico, his first victory at World Tour level.^[24]

He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia and won Stage 3 from Tortolì to Cagliari in a sprint finish, taking the lead in the general classification in the process.^[25] He achieved further success by winning Stages 5, 12 and 13 in a bunch sprint, making him the first Colombian to win four stages in a single Giro d'Italia.^[26] In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the 2018 Tour de France.^[27] Gaviria won stage 1 of the Tour De France, starting Day 2 in the Yellow Jersey. Gaviria and other major sprinters such as Greipel and Groenewegen were unable to finish stage 11 which was the third major hilly alps stage within the time limit and were eliminated.^[28]. Gaviria suffered a broken collarbone at the Tour of Turkey and was forced to abandon, ending his 2018 campaign. Shortly after it was announced that due to money problems with QuikStep, Gaviria was given the option to leave one year ealy and chose to sign a 3 year contract with UAE Team Emirates for 2019. ^[29]

Career achievements

Track

2012

UCI Junior Track World Championships

1st Omnium

1st Madison (with Jordan Parra)

2013

Pan American Track Championships

1st Omnium

2nd Team pursuit

2014

1st Omnium, Central American and Caribbean Games

1st Omnium, South American Games

1st Omnium – London, UCI Track World Cup

2015

Pan American Games

1st Omnium

1st Team pursuit

1st Omnium, UCI Track World Championships

2016

1st Omnium, UCI Track World Championships

Road

2013

1st Road race, Bolivarian Games

2014

1st Road race, Pan American Under–23 Road Championships

Central American and Caribbean Games

2nd Time trial

4th Road race

2015

Tour de San Luis

1st Stages 1 & 3

Czech Cycling Tour

1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2

1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain

8th RideLondon–Surrey Classic

Pan American Games

8th Time trial

9th Road race

2016

1st Paris–Tours

1st GP Impanis-Van Petegem

Tour La Provence

1st Points classification

1st Stage 3

Tour de Pologne

1st Stages 2 & 4

Tour de San Luis

1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2

1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico

2nd Gran Piemonte

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

6th Gent–Wevelgem

7th Halle–Ingooigem

10th Dwars door Vlaanderen

2017

1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

Giro d'Italia

1st Points classification

1st Stages 3, 5, 12 & 13

Held & after Stage 3

Tour of Guangxi

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 6

Vuelta a San Juan

1st Stages 1 & 4

1st Stage 6 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 1 Volta ao Algarve

1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain

4th GP Impanis-Van Petegem

5th Milan–San Remo

8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

9th Gent–Wevelgem

2018

Tour de France

1st Stages 1 & 4

Held & after Stage 1

Held after Stages 1–2

Tour of California

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1, 5 & 7

Colombia Oro y Paz

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1, 2 & 3

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a San Juan

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	129	—
Tour de France	—	DNF
Vuelta a España	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

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