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Imanol Erviti

Road bicycle racer

Summary

Road bicycle racer

FieldValue
nameImanol Erviti
imageCritérium du Dauphiné 2013 - 4e étape (clm) - 22 (cropped).JPG
captionErviti at the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné
fullnameImanol Erviti Ollo
birth_date
birth_placePamplona, Spain
height
weight82 kg
currentteam
disciplineRoad
role
ridertype
amateuryears12004
amateurteam1Serbitzu Kirolgi
proyears12005–2023
proteam1
manageyears12024–
manageteam1(directeur sportif)
majorwinsGrand Tours

:Vuelta a España ::2 individual stages (2008, 2010) ::2 TTT stages (2012, 2014) Imanol Erviti Ollo (born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2023, entirely for and its successors. Primarily working as a domestique, Erviti took three victories as a professional – including two stage victories at the Vuelta a España in 2008 and 2010.

Following his retirement, Erviti became a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam .

Career

Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Erviti's first UCI race success came at the 2004 Vuelta a Navarra as an amateur, winning the final stage while riding for the Serbitzu Kirolgi team. He turned professional the following year with . He formed part of two team time trial stage victories in 2007 at the Tour Méditerranéen and the Volta a Catalunya, before taking his first professional victory at the 2008 Vuelta a España. Having missed out on a stage victory when he was caught by the sprinters after an attack with 4 km remaining on stage 17, Erviti won the following day after passing Nicolas Roche before the finish line in Las Rozas de Madrid, having been a part of a larger breakaway group.

After being a part of another team time trial stage victory at the 2009 Tour Méditerranéen, Erviti took his second Vuelta a España stage win at the 2010 race, after a solo move in the closing kilometres of the stage. The following year, he won the Vuelta a La Rioja one-day race, out-sprinting teammates Giovanny Báez and Juan Pablo Suárez. He was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed as part of a large pile-up on stage 6 with 25 km remaining. Erviti suffered "serious wounds in his right side", that required surgery, a 48-hour hospital stay and as a result, did not start stage 7. He also contested that year's Vuelta a España, again forming part of a stage-winning effort by the in the team time trial. He also formed part of the 's team time trial stage win at the 2014 Vuelta a España.

In 2016, he was in the early breakaway in the two cycling monuments held as cobbled classics, the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. He finished both races in the top 10 – the first Spanish rider to do so in the same year – with his seventh-place finish in the Tour of Flanders being the best result for any rider at the race over the team's history. At the 2021 Tour de France, Erviti finished second on stage twelve, having featured as part of the day's breakaway before Nils Politt soloed away to take the stage victory in Nîmes. He retired at the end of the 2023 season, becoming a directeur sportif with UCI WorldTeam ahead of the 2024 season.

Major results

Source: ;2004 : 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra ;2007 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour Méditerranéen ;2008 : 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España ;2009 : 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ::1st Stage 2 (TTT) ;2010 : 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España : 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ;2011 : 1st Vuelta a La Rioja ;2012 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España ;2014 : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships ;2016 : 7th Tour of Flanders : 9th Paris–Roubaix ;2017 : 5th Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023[[File:Jersey pink.svg20pxlink=alt=A pink jersey]] Giro d'Italia[[File:Jersey yellow.svg20pxlink=alt=A yellow jersey]] Tour de France[[File:Jersey gold.svg20pxlink=alt=A gold jersey]]/[[File:Jersey red.svg20pxlink=alt=A red jersey]] Vuelta a España
81—————————————————
————7788DNF118811151089277997467DNF—
—6299100781261321026310084—92644766—78
—DNF
Did not compete
Did not finish

References

References

  1. "Imanol Erviti". Movistar Team.
  2. (18 December 2018). "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica, S.A..
  3. (19 December 2019). "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Abarca Sports SL.
  4. (30 May 2004). "Stage 6 - May 30: Tudela-Pamplona, 137 km". Knapp Communications.
  5. (14 February 2007). "Caisse takes team time trial". Knapp Communications.
  6. Alvarez, Hernan. (21 May 2007). "Men in black take the stage". Knapp Communications.
  7. (17 September 2008). "Quick Step's Weylandt sprints to stage win". [[Future plc]].
  8. (18 September 2008). "Erviti edges Roche". [[TF1 Group]].
  9. (7 September 2010). "Erviti takes Vuelta stage as Saxo Bank self-destruct". [[TI Media.
  10. Haake, Bjorn. (24 April 2011). "Imanol Erviti takes Vuelta a la Rioja". VeloNation LLC.
  11. (7 July 2012). "Fractures, bruises and bumps: A stage six injury report". Future Publishing Limited.
  12. (18 August 2012). "The dream comes true". Abarca Sports S.L..
  13. Fotheringham, Alasdair. (23 August 2014). "Vuelta a España: Movistar wins Team Time Trial opener". [[Immediate Media Company]].
  14. Àbalos, Olga. (16 October 2023). "Imanol Erviti - a timeless classic". Gruppo Media Ltd.
  15. (10 April 2016). "Imanol Erviti: the pride of a captain". Abarca Sports S.L..
  16. (3 April 2016). "Erviti, 7th and a place in history". Abarca Sports S.L..
  17. Farrand, Stephen. (8 July 2021). "Tour de France: Nils Politt wins stage 12 as breakaway sticks". [[Future plc]].
  18. McGrath, Andy. (10 October 2023). "We are all Imanol Erviti".
  19. Clifford, Flo. (14 December 2023). "What's going on with Ineos Grenadiers?". Diamond Publishing.
  20. "Imanol Erviti". FirstCycling AS.
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