# Fernando Gaviria

Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. 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.

## 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 Etixx–Quick-Step 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 AG2R La Mondiale, 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 Etixx–Quick-Step team. 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". In February 2015, Lefevere announced that Gaviria would be undergoing tests with Etixx–Quick-Step 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 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.
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 Etixx–Quick-Step as a stagiaire in August 2015 at the RideLondon–Surrey Classic. He finished in eighth position, the highest-placed Etixx–Quick-Step rider. His next race for the team was in the Czech Cycling Tour, where Etixx–Quick-Step 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 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. 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 (2019–2022)

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 his first season with the team, he won the third stage of the Giro d'Italia, his fifth win total in the race. Earlier that season, he won a stage of the UAE Tour, and ended the year with two more wins at the Tour of Guangxi.
Gaviria won six more races in 2020, including the Giro della Toscana one-day race. In 2021, he only saw one victory: stage three of the Tour de Pologne.
Gaviria started 2022 in the Middle East, winning two stages and the points classification of the Tour of Oman. Three months later, he finished second at Eschborn–Frankfurt before going on to compete in the Giro d'Italia. Here, he finished second on two stages, third on one and second in the points classification. At the end of the season, he obtained no notable results and was criticized by Joxean Fernández, the manager of UAE Team Emirates, who questioned his "focus and motivation".

### Movistar Team (2023–)

For the 2023 season, Gaviria joined Movistar Team on a one-year contract, bringing home two stage wins in his initial season, one at the Tour de Romandie and one at the Vuelta a San Juan. He started off 2024 with a win on day one of the Tour Colombia, later placing second on stage four.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2012

    1st Time trial, National Junior Championships

#### 2013

    1st Road race, Bolivarian Games

#### 2014

    1st Road race, Pan American Under-23 Championships
    Central American and Caribbean Games
       2nd Time trial
       4th Road race

#### 2015 (4 pro wins)

    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 (7)

    1st Paris–Tours
    1st Grand Prix 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 (14)

    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 Primus Classic
    5th Milan–San Remo
    8th Road race, UCI World Championships
    9th Gent–Wevelgem

#### 2018 (9)

    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

#### 2019 (6)

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 3
       Held after Stage 3
    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 (6)

    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 (1)

    1st Stage 3 Tour de Pologne
    3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies
    10th Brussels Cycling Classic

#### 2022 (2)

    Tour of Oman
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 & 6
    2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt

#### 2023 (2)

    1st Stage 5 Tour de Romandie
    1st Stage 4 Vuelta a San Juan
    2nd Milano–Torino
    7th Clásica de Almería

#### 2024 (1)

    1st Stage 1 Tour Colombia

#### 2025

    5th Trofeo Ses Salines

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | 129 | — | DNF | DNF | 109 | 128 | 118 | 137 |
| Tour de France | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 147 | — | — | — | — | — |

#### Classic results timeline

| Monument | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | 79 | 5 | — | 16 | 91 | 113 | — | 129 | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | 78 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | DNF | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Giro di Lombardia | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Classic | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Milano–Torino | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | 2 | — |
| Brugge–De Panne | Previously stage race | Previously stage race | Previously stage race | — | 2 | — | 14 | — | DNF | 14 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | 6 | 9 | — | 21 | — | — | — | DNF | DNF |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 10 | 90 | — | 22 | NH | — | — | 92 | — |
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | NH | — | DNF | 25 | — | NH | — | — | 2 | — |
| Paris–Tours | — | 1 | 28 | — | — | — | — | DNF | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |

### Track
#### 2012

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison (with Jordan Parra)

#### 2013

    Pan American Championships
       1st Omnium
       2nd Team pursuit
    Bolivarian Games
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison (with Juan Arango)
    2nd Omnium, National Championships

#### 2014

    1st Omnium, Central American and Caribbean Games
    1st Omnium, South American Games
    1st Omnium, UCI World Cup, London

#### 2015

    Pan American Games
       1st Omnium
       1st Team pursuit
    1st Omnium, UCI World Championships

#### 2016

    1st Omnium, UCI World Championships

#### 2019

    Torneo Internacional de Pista de Cali
       1st Madison (with Juan Arango)
       2nd Omnium

#### 2023

    Pan American Championships
       2nd Omnium
       2nd Madison (with Juan Arango)
       2nd Team pursuit
       2nd Elimination