Nairo Quintana
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Quintana at the 2013 Tour of the Basque Country
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas |
| Nickname | Nairoman, El Condor de los Andes. |
| Born |
4 February 1990 Cómbita, Boyacá,  Colombia
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| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Movistar Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2009 | Boyacá es para Vivirla |
| 2010–2011 | Café de Colombia–Colombia es Pasión |
| 2012– | Movistar Team |
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Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, ODB, (Cómbita, Boyacá, 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, currently riding for the Movistar Team. He is nicknamed Nairoman and "El Condor 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 good time trialist, 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 a 2nd place overall in the Tour de France of 2013 and 2015.
His multiple wins in other major stage races, leading to high UCI WorldTour ranking placements at the end of each season, are other reasons why he is seen as one of the most successful stage-racing riders of the recent era, and the best road cyclist in Colombian history.
His brother Dayer Quintana is also a professional cyclist, and is a member of the Movistar Team.
Born in Cómbita, a town near the capital of Boyacá, Tunja, in Colombia, to a farming family, Quintana comes from a humble background, but his family still saved up to buy Quintana a second-hand mountain bike to make the 16 km (9.9 mi) journey through the Eastern Ranges of the Andes to school and to travel from village to village to sell fruit and vegetables. At the age of 16 he also started working as a taxi driver using his father's car. Quintana resides in Cómbita, splitting his time between his native country and Pamplona in Navarre. His parents' names are Luis Quintana and Eloisa Rojas, and he has four siblings: sisters Nelly and Lady, and brothers Willington and Dayer.
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