Nairo Quintana Concludes His Sporting Career at the Giro dell'Emilia - teleSUR English
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Nairo Quintana will conclude his successful 17-year career on October 3 at the Giro dell'Emilia, leaving behind a historic legacy as the winner of the 2014 Giro d'Italia and the 2016 Vuelta a España.

Colombian cyclist Nairo Quintana, of the Movistar team, will bring his professional career to a close on Saturday, October 3, at the Giro dell’Emilia—an Italian classic he previously won in 2012.

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The 36-year-old rider will bid farewell to the international peloton just days after representing Colombia at the Road World Championships in Montreal, Canada, where he withdrew with 96 kilometers remaining.

The Giro dell’Emilia is a one-day Italian classic held in the Emilia-Romagna region with a tradition spanning over a century. The inaugural edition took place on September 5, 1909, covering a distance of 340 kilometers—significantly longer than the current 198-kilometer route.

Since 2020, the event has been part of the UCI ProSeries (category 1.Pro), the second tier of the International Cycling Union’s global calendar, ranking just below the WorldTour. The race has established itself as a key classic in the final stretch of the cycling season.

Nairo Quintana leaves behind an impressive list of achievements, including victories in two of cycling’s three Grand Tours. In 2014, he became the first Colombian to win the Giro d’Italia, a race in which he also claimed two stage victories. Three years later, in 2017, he returned to the podium by finishing second in the general classification.

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At the Tour de France, Quintana secured two second-place finishes in the general classification (2013 and 2015) and won three stages. In his debut in 2013, he finished second behind Britain’s Chris Froome and won both the mountains classification and the young rider classification. In 2016, he achieved his second Grand Tour victory by winning the Vuelta a España.

The cyclist from Boyacá also boasts victories in numerous other prestigious international stage races. His notable victories include Tirreno-Adriatico (2015 and 2017), the Volta a Catalunya (2016), the Tour de Romandie (2016), the Tour of the Basque Country (2013), the Vuelta a Burgos (2014), the Vuelta a Asturias (2021 and 2026), the Tour de la Provence (2020 and 2022), the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes (2022), and the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (2017). Furthermore, he boasts stage wins in the Tour de France (three), the Giro d’Italia (three), and the Vuelta a España (two).

Nairo Quintana will compete in the Giro dell’Emilia with a Movistar team assembled specifically for this race. The squad will consist of Roger Adrià, Michel Hessmann, Juanpe López, Pelayo Sánchez, Jorge Arcas, and Einer Rubio, who will join the Colombian for his final professional appearance.

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