Nairo Quintana’s farewell marks the 109th edition of the Giro de Emilia

The Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar), winner of a Return to Spain (2016) and a Giro d’Italia (2014), will put an end to his sporting career on Saturday, October 3 at the Giro de Emiliaa race he already won fourteen years ago, in 2012.

Quintana36 years old, will say goodbye in Italy just a few days after playing with the Colombian team in the World route of Montreal (Canada), from which he withdrew when there were 96 kilometers to go.

He Emilia’s turn It is a one-day Italian classic that takes place in Emilia-Romagna and that has more than a century of history. The first edition was run on September 5, 1909, over a route of 340 kilometers, many more than the 198 today.

Since 2020 it has been part of the UCI ProSeriesin the 1.Pro category, the second level of the international calendar of the ICU below the WorldTour. It is a single-day race and for years it has become one of the classic tests of the final stretch of the season.

Nairo Quintana He will say goodbye to the international squad with a very extensive record. In 2014 he became the first Colombian to win the Giro d’Italiaa race in which he won two stages. Three years later he returned to the podium by finishing second.

In it Tour de France He also achieved two second places in the general classification, in 2013 and 2015, in addition to three stage victories. In 2013, in his first participation, he finished second behind the British Chris Froome and won the mountain classification and the best young person.

In 2016 he won the Return to Spainhis second victory in one of the three Grand Tours.

His record also includes victories in the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic (2015 and 2017), Return to Catalonia (2016), Romandie Tour (2016), the Return to the Basque Country (2013), Return to Burgos (2014), Return to Asturias (2021 and 2026), Provence Tour (2020 and 2022) and the Maritime Alps Tour (2022 and 2022) or Return to the Valencian Community (2017). In addition, he can also boast of having won three stages of the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia and two of the Return to Spain.

Nairo Quintana will compete in the Emilia’s turn with a Movistar team formed for this race by Roger Adrià, Michel Hessmann, Juanpe López, Pelayo Sánchez, Jorge Arcas and Einer Rubio.