Fernando Gaviria facts for kids
![]() Gaviria at the 2018 Münsterland Giro
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Full name | Fernando Gaviria Rendón | ||
Born | La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia |
19 August 1994 ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb) | ||
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Current team | UAE Team Emirates | ||
Role | Rider | ||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||
Major wins | |||
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Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. 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. 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.
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Career
Early career
Before his road career, Gaviria won the omnium and madison events at the 2012 UCI Juniors Track World Championships. In 2014, he won the under-23 Pan-American road race. 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 and ended the race second in the points competition. Later that year he won the omnium in the London round of the 2014–15 UCI Track Cycling World Cup.
Gaviria's first major road cycling winning streak started in January 2015 at the 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 {{{team name-2015}}} team into second place. Cavendish said after the race that he had not heard of Gaviria before the race. Gaviria then won the third stage of the race, again beating Cavendish into second place. Cavendish won the final stage of the event, with Gaviria finishing a close second.
Following these high-profile victories, there were reports that several UCI World Tour teams were seeking to sign Gaviria, including {{{team name-2015}}}, though he committed his 2015 season to riding with the Colombian national team. Later reports suggested that his most likely 2016 team was Cavendish's own {{{team name-2015}}} team. It was also revealed that Gaviria had been recommended in 2014 to Patrick Lefevere, the manager of {{{team name-2015}}}, but the team declined to sign him. Following Gaviria's success at the Tour de San Luis, Lefevere called this a "mistake". In February 2015, Lefevere announced that Gaviria would be undergoing tests with {{{team name-2015}}} after the UCI Track Cycling 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 Summer Olympics. Following these tests, Gaviria signed a contract for 2016 with {{{team name-2015}}}, 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.
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.
Etixx–Quick-Step (2015–2018)
Gaviria made his debut for {{{team name-2015}}} as a stagiaire in August 2015 at the RideLondon–Surrey Classic. He finished in eighth position, the highest-placed {{{team name-2015}}} rider. His next race for the team was in the Czech Cycling Tour, where {{{team name-2015}}} won the first stage, a team time trial. The following day Gaviria won his first individual stage victory for the team, winning a reduced bunch sprint. After this race, it was the 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 {{{team name-2016}}} 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. He won stage 3 of Tirreno–Adriatico, his first victory at World Tour level.
In 2017, he was named in the start list for the 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. He achieved further success by winning Stages 5, 12 and 13 in bunch sprints, making him the first Colombian to win four stages in a single Giro d'Italia. In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France. Gaviria won stage 1 of the Tour de France, starting Day 2 in the Yellow Jersey. Gaviria and other major sprinters such as André Greipel and Dylan Groenewegen were unable to finish stage 11 which was the third major hilly alps stage within the time limit and were eliminated. Gaviria suffered a broken collarbone at the Tour of Turkey and was forced to abandon, ending his 2018 campaign.
UAE Team Emirates (2019–present)
Shortly after his injury at the Tour of Turkey, it was announced that Gaviria was joining the UAE Team Emirates team on a three-year contract from the 2019 season. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.
Major results
Track
- 2013
- Pan American Track Championships
- Bolivarian Games
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Omnium
- 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, UCI Track World Championships
- 2016
- 1st
Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 2019
- Torneo Internacional de Pista de Cali
- 1st Madison (with Juan Arango)
- 2nd Omnium
Road
- 2012
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2013
- 1st
Road race, Bolivarian Games
- 2014
- 1st
Road race, Pan American Under-23 Road Championships
- Central American and Caribbean Games
- 2015
- Tour de San Luis
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- Czech Cycling Tour
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain
- Pan American Games
- 8th Time trial
- 9th Road race
- 8th RideLondon–Surrey Classic
- 2016
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
- Tour La Provence
- 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
- Tour of Guangxi
- 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 Primus Classic
- 5th Milan–San Remo
- 8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2018
- Tour de France
- Tour of California
- Colombia Oro y Paz
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a San Juan
- 2019
- Giro d'Italia
- Tour of Guangxi
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- Vuelta a San Juan
- 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 1st Stage 2 UAE Tour
- 2nd Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
- 4th Münsterland Giro
- 2020
- 1st Giro della Toscana
- Vuelta a San Juan
- 1st Stages 2, 4 & 7
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin
- 7th Milano–Torino
- 2021
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Pologne
- 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 10th Brussels Cycling Classic
- 2022
- Tour of Oman
- 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt