Nelson Oliveira
Oliveira in April 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Nelson Filipe Santos Simões Oliveira | |||||||||||||
Born |
Anadia, Portugal | 6 March 1989|||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Rider type | Time trialist | |||||||||||||
Professional team(s) | ||||||||||||||
2010 | Xacobeo–Galicia | |||||||||||||
2011 | Team RadioShack | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | RadioShack–Nissan[1] | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Lampre–Merida | |||||||||||||
2016– | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Nelson Filipe Santos Simões Oliveira (born 6 March 1989) is a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist riding for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[2]
Career
In September 2009, Anadia-born Oliveira won the silver medal in the under-23 time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.[3] In November 2009, Oliveira signed with Xacobeo–Galicia.
In September 2010, he went again to the UCI Road World Championships, and was 4th in the under-23 time trial, not repeating a podium by just 4 seconds.[4] In 2011 he won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships and finished 17th in the UCI World Time Trial Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's road race and the men's individual time trial.[5]
Oliveira left RadioShack–Leopard at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Lampre–Merida for the 2014 season.[6] In 2014, he won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships again. He also won the Portuguese National Road Race Championships several days later. In September 2015 it was reported that Oliveira would leave Lampre–Merida and join Movistar Team for 2016.[7] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the road race and the men's individual time trial.[5]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2006
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships - 2007
- 1st Stage 3a Vuelta Valladolid Juniors
- 2008
- 3rd Overall Volta a Madeira
- 2009
- 1st
Time trial, National Under–23 Road Championships - 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships - 5th Overall Volta a Madeira
- 1st Stage 6
- 2010
- 1st
Time trial, National Under–23 Road Championships - UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
- 2nd
Road race - 3rd
Time trial
- 2nd
- 2nd Overall Grand Prix du Portugal
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
- 6th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 6th Overall Giro delle Regioni
- 2011
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 2012
- 1st
Mountains classification Ster ZLM Toer - 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 1st
Road race
- 1st
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2015
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 4th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 7th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 2017
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2018
- 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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— | 64 | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | |
— | — | — | 87 | 47 | 80 | — | — | |
118 | — | — | — | 21 | — | 47 | 71 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ MARCA.com (2015-09-17). "El Movistar Team ficha a Nelson Oliveira". MARCA.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-08-10.
- ↑ Bobridge conquers Swiss Worlds course for gold, Oliveira second by 18"
- ↑ Phinney claims rainbow bands for USA
- 1 2 "Nélson Oliveira Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
- ↑ "Nélson Filipe Santos Simões Oliveira: Portuguese youth for Lampre-Merida". Lampre–Merida. New Master SRL. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ↑ "El Movistar Team ficha a Nelson Oliveira". MARCA.com (in Spanish). 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nélson Oliveira (cyclist). |
- Nelson Oliveira at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- Nelson Oliveira at Cycling Archives
- Nelson Oliveira at Cycling Quotient
- Nelson Oliveira at ProCyclingStats