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| Full name | Nelson Filipe dos Santos Simões Oliveira | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1989 Anadia, Portugal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Xacobeo–Galicia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Team RadioShack | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | RadioShack–Nissan[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Lampre–Merida | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Movistar Team[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nelson Filipe dos Santos Simões Oliveira[5] (born 6 March 1989) is a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[6]
Career
In September 2009, Anadia-born Oliveira won the silver medal in the under-23 time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
Oliveira left RadioShack–Leopard at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Lampre–Merida for the 2014 season.[10] 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.[11] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the road race and the men's individual time trial.[9]
Major results
Oliveira at the 2015 Paris–Nice
Source: [12]
- 2006
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships - 2007
- 1st Stage 3a Vuelta Valladolid Juniors
- 7th Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships
- 2008
- 3rd Overall Volta a Madeira
- 2009
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World 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 Under-23 Road World Championships
- 6th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 6th Overall Giro delle Regioni
- 2011 (1 pro win)
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2012
- 1st
Mountains classification, Ster ZLM Toer - 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2014 (2)
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2015 (2)
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 2016 (1)
- 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
- 2019
- European Games
- 2nd
Time trial - 10th Road race
- 2nd
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 6th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2020
- 6th Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 2021
- 2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 2022
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2023
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia |
— | 64 | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | — | — |
 Tour de France |
— | — | — | 87 | 47 | 80 | — | — | 79 | 55 | — | 52 | 53 |
 Vuelta a España |
118 | — | — | — | 21 | — | 47 | 71 | 46 | 39 | 72 | 37 | 53 |
Major championships results timeline
| Event | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Olympic Games |
Road race | NH | 69 | Not held | DNF | Not held | 41 | Not held | ||||||
| Time trial | 18 | 7 | 21 | |||||||||||
 World Championships |
Road race | 122 | — | — | 67 | 16 | DNF | 55 | 39 | DNF | 38 | 55 | 44 | 46 |
| Time trial | 17 | — | 15 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 6 | |
 European Championships |
Road race | Race did not exist | — | — | — | — | — | 28 | — | |||||
| Time trial | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| National Championships |
Road race | — | — | — | 1 | 14 | 2 | — | — | 17 | — | 15 | — | — |
| Time trial | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
References
- 1 2 "Nelson Oliveira". Movistar Team. Movistar Team. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ↑ "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ↑ "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ↑ Portugueses | Tóquio 2020 | PÚBLICO
- ↑ "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ↑ "Nélson Filipe Santos Simões Oliveira: Portuguese youth for Lampre-Merida". Lampre–Merida. New Master SRL. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ↑ MARCA.com (17 September 2015). "El Movistar Team ficha a Nelson Oliveira". MARCA.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ "Nelson Oliveira". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nélson Oliveira (cyclist).
- Nelson Oliveira at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Nelson Oliveira at Cycling Archives
- Nelson Oliveira at CQ Ranking
- Nelson Oliveira at ProCyclingStats
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