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Key facts
- 2009
- Boyacá es Para Vivirla
- 2024
- Movistar Team
- Full name
- Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
- Nickname
- The Lion El Cóndor de los Andes Nair Force KINGtana Nairoman
- Born
- ( 1990-02-04 ) 4 February 1990 (age 36) , Cómbita , Boyacá , Colombia
- Height
- 1.67 m (5 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb)
- Current team
- Movistar Team
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Climber
- 2010 2011
- Café de Colombia–Colombia es Pasión
- 2012 2019
- Movistar Team
- 2020 2022
- Arkéa–Samsic
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Colombia
- Place of birth
- Tunja
- Sibling
- Dayer Quintana
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 2025 UCI America Tour
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- Movistar Team
- Position played
- climbing specialist
- Country for sport
- Colombia
- Mass
- 58
- Image
- Nairo Quintana with fans, 2019 Paris-Nice (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 166
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- Nairo Quintana
- date of birth
- 1990-02-04
- birth name
- Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
- second family name in Spanish name
- Rojas
- name in native language
- Nairo Quintana
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
- social media followers
- 1311517
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Encyclopedic overview
Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nairo Quintana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.