Imanol Erviti

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Erviti and the second or maternal family name is Ollo.

Imanol Erviti
Erviti at the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full nameImanol Erviti Ollo
Born (1983-11-15) 15 November 1983 (age 40)
Pamplona, Spain
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad
Role
Rider type
Amateur team
2004Serbitzu Kirolgi
Professional team
2005–2023Illes Balears–Banesto[2][3]
Managerial team
2024–Ineos Grenadiers (directeur sportif)
Major wins
Grand 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 Illes Balears–Banesto 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 Ineos Grenadiers.

Career[edit]

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.[4] He turned professional the following year with Illes Balears–Banesto. He formed part of two team time trial stage victories in 2007 at the Tour Méditerranéen and the Volta a Catalunya,[5][6] 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 kilometres (2.5 miles) remaining on stage 17,[7] 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.[8]

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.[9] The following year, he won the Vuelta a La Rioja one-day race, out-sprinting EPM–UNE teammates Giovanny Báez and Juan Pablo Suárez.[10] He was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed as part of a large pile-up on stage 6 with 25 kilometres (16 miles) 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.[11] He also contested that year's Vuelta a España, again forming part of a stage-winning effort by the Movistar Team in the team time trial.[12] He also formed part of the Movistar Team's team time trial stage win at the 2014 Vuelta a España.[13]

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[14][15] – with his seventh-place finish in the Tour of Flanders being the best result for any Movistar Team rider at the race over the team's history.[16] 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.[17] He retired at the end of the 2023 season,[18] becoming a directeur sportif with UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers ahead of the 2024 season.[19]

Major results[edit]

Source: [20]

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[edit]

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 81 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — — 77 88 DNF 118 81 115 108 92 77 99 74 67 DNF —
A gold jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España — 62 99 100 78 126 132 102 63 100 84 — 92 64 47 66 — 78
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Imanol Erviti". Movistar Team. Movistar Team. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Stage 6 - May 30: Tudela-Pamplona, 137 km". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. 30 May 2004. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Caisse takes team time trial". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. 14 February 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  6. ^ Alvarez, Hernan (21 May 2007). "Men in black take the stage". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  7. ^ Brown, Gregor; Haake, Bjorn (17 September 2008). "Quick Step's Weylandt sprints to stage win". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Erviti edges Roche". Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 18 September 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Erviti takes Vuelta stage as Saxo Bank self-destruct". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  10. ^ Haake, Bjorn (24 April 2011). "Imanol Erviti takes Vuelta a la Rioja". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  11. ^ "Fractures, bruises and bumps: A stage six injury report". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 7 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  12. ^ "The dream comes true". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports S.L. 18 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  13. ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (23 August 2014). "Vuelta a España: Movistar wins Team Time Trial opener". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  14. ^ Àbalos, Olga (16 October 2023). "Imanol Erviti - a timeless classic". Rouleur. Gruppo Media Ltd. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Imanol Erviti: the pride of a captain". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports S.L. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  16. ^ "Erviti, 7th and a place in history". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports S.L. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  17. ^ Farrand, Stephen (8 July 2021). "Tour de France: Nils Politt wins stage 12 as breakaway sticks". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  18. ^ McGrath, Andy (10 October 2023). "We are all Imanol Erviti". Escape Collective. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  19. ^ Clifford, Flo (14 December 2023). "What's going on with Ineos Grenadiers?". Cyclist. Diamond Publishing. Retrieved 12 May 2024. Ex-Movistar stalwart Imanol Erviti joins as a DS having retired from racing this year [...]
  20. ^ "Imanol Erviti". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 12 May 2024.

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