Elia Viviani

Elia Viviani

Viviani at the 2018 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Born	(1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 32) Isola della Scala, Italy
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Cofidis
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur team
2008–2010	Marchiol–Liquigas–Site
Professional teams
2010–2014	Liquigas–Doimo
2015–2017	Team Sky
2018–2019	Quick-Step Floors[2][3]
2020–2021	Cofidis[4]
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2019) Giro d'Italia Points classification (2018) 5 individual stages (2015, 2018) Vuelta a España 3 individual stages (2018) Stage races Dubai Tour (2018) One-day races and Classics European Road Race Championships (2019) National Road Race Championships (2018) EuroEyes Cyclassics (2017, 2018, 2019) Bretagne Classic (2017) Three Days of Bruges–De Panne (2018) Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (2019) London–Surrey Classic (2019) Grand Prix de Fourmies (2021)
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Italy Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 1 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1 2 2 UEC European Track Championships 7 1 3 European Road Championships 1 1 0 Total 10 4 6 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Omnium 2020 Tokyo Omnium World Championships 2021 Roubaix Elimination 2011 Apeldoorn Scratch 2015 Yvelines Madison 2015 Yvelines Omnium 2021 Roubaix Omnium European Championships 2012 Panevėžys Points race 2013 Apeldoorn Points race 2013 Apeldoorn Madison 2014 Guadeloupe Omnium 2015 Grenchen Omnium 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit 2019 Apeldoorn Elimination race 2018 Glasgow Omnium 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium 2012 Panevėžys Team pursuit 2012 Panevėžys Madison Men's road bicycle racing European Championships 2019 Alkmaar Road race 2017 Herning Road race

Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.^[5] On 10 May 2015, Viviani won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia, winning stage 2 in a bunch sprint before Moreno Hofland and André Greipel.^[6][7]

In August 2016 Viviani won gold in the omnium at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2021, he won bronze in the omnium at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[8]

Viviani's nickname in the peloton is "Il Veggente" for his ability to foresee line moves of other sprinters during the sprint.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Team Sky (2015–17)[]

2015 season[]

Viviani signed for Team Sky on 24 October 2014 after considering offers from Orica–GreenEDGE and the BMC Racing Team. He chose Team Sky because they were willing to help tailor his road programme to help with his track ambitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[9] After winning Stage 2 of the Dubai Tour, Viviani headed to the Track World Championships in Yvelines winning two medals including bronze in his focused Olympic event, the omnium. Back on the road Viviani made a big leap forward, consistently winning at World Tour level winning stages at the Tour de Romandie, the Eneco Tour and winning his first Grand Tour stage at the Giro d'Italia on stage 2 into Genoa.^[10] He ended the season well, becoming the European Track Champion in the omnium, gaining Olympic qualification points in the process.^[11] He also won three stages at the Tour of Britain and finished where he started the season, winning in the Middle East, this time at the Abu Dhabi Tour.

Quick-Step Floors (2018–19)[]

2018 season[]

Viviani signed for the Quick-Step Floors team before the 2018 season, replacing Marcel Kittel who joined Team Katusha–Alpecin.^[12] He got off to a good start winning Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under, the 50th victory since his professional début in 2010. He continued the momentum in the Middle East where he won his first major overall title and two stage wins at the Dubai Tour as well as a stage in the Abu Dhabi Tour. He returned to Europe for his first big objective of the season where he came 19th at Milan–San Remo. He added another success in Belgium at the Three Days of Bruges–De Panne but suffered an emotional defeat at Gent–Wevelgem, finishing in second place behind Peter Sagan.^[13] He also won the Italian National Road Race Championships.

2019 season[]

He again got off to a good start in Australia winning the opening stage of the Tour Down Under, and followed it up with the One-day classic Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, going one better than the previous year. Viviani's next win came at the UAE Tour a month later as he had an easier build up to the two Grand Tours he was scheduled to compete in – the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. After winning Stage 3 of Tirreno–Adriatico, he encountered a dry spell mainly due to bad luck at the Giro d'Italia, where he was disqualified after winning a sprint on Stage 3 into Orbetello, after he was adjudged to have illegally blocked Trek–Segafredo's Matteo Moschetti.^[14] After last year's success, he failed to win a single stage in his home tour while wearing the national champion's jersey.

In his build up to the Tour de France he won two sprints in a row at the Tour de Suisse, before going onto win his first stage at the Tour de France into Nancy.^[15] Viviani came out of the Tour on top form, winning the London–Surrey Classic. After losing his national champion's jersey in June, he earned the right to wear a non standard team kit again for the following year after he won the European Championships on 11 August in Alkmaar. He won from a three-man break following the attack from trade teammate Yves Lampaert, and beating him and Pascal Ackermann in the sprint.^[16]

Cofidis (2020–21)[]

In August 2019, Viviani was announced to be joining Cofidis for the 2020 season along with his lead-out man Fabio Sabatini.^[4]

Ineos Grenadiers[]

In November 2021, Viviani signed a three-year contract with the Ineos Grenadiers team, from the 2022 season.^[17]

Personal life[]

Viviani is married^[18] to fellow cyclist Elena Cecchini.^[19] His brother Attilio Viviani is also a professional cyclist.

Major results[]

Road[]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Giro d'Italia	—	119	145	125	DNF	—	132	DNF	112	135
Tour de France	—	—	162	—	—	—	—	130	135	—
Vuelta a España	128	—	—	—	—	—	145	—	—	—

Classics results timeline[]

Monument	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Milan–San Remo	—	—	108	108	—	—	84	9	19	65	39	69
Tour of Flanders	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—
Paris–Roubaix	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	DNF	—	—	NH	—
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	Has not contested during his career
Giro di Lombardia
Classic	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne	—	—	—	—	—	3	DNF	—	—	—	—	—
Gent–Wevelgem	—	—	—	15	—	DNF	DNF	—	2	19	—	—
Scheldeprijs	—	—	—	—	42	DNF	46	2	—	—	—	31
London–Surrey Classic	—	—	—	—	9	28	—	11	2	1	Not held
Hamburg Cyclassics	78	—	—	5	—	14	—	1	1	1
Bretagne Classic	—	—	—	7	31	15	—	1	—	69	—	—

Major championships timeline[]

Event		2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Olympic Games	Road race	Not held		38	Not held			—	Not held
World Championships	Road race	—	80	—	—	—	89	20	57	—	—	—
	Team time trial	Not held			—	—	—	9	—	—	Not held
European Championships	Road race	Race did not exist						—	2	20	1	—
National Championships	Time trial	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Road race	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	33	DNF	1	DNF	DNF

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
IP	In progress
NH	Not held

Track[]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elia Viviani.

• Official website
• Elia Viviani at Cycling Archives
• Elia Viviani at ProCyclingStats
• Elia Viviani at Cycling Quotient
• Elia Viviani at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Elia Viviani at Olympedia
• Elia Viviani at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Summer Olympics
Preceded by Federica Pellegrini	Flagbearer for  Italy Tokyo 2020 With: Jessica Rossi	Succeeded by Incumbent