- Place: Aveiro
- Birth: 06/03/1989
- Country: POR
- Height: 180 Cm
- Weight: 67 Kg
- Pro debut: 2010
- Years in team: 3
- Career path:
2016-2018: Movistar Team
2014-2015: Lampre
2011-2013: RadioShack
2010: Xacobeo-Galicia
Nelson Oliveira
BRILLIANT TT SPECIALIST. His fourth place in the 2017 World time trial championships is a proof of his splendid TT abilities. He’s also been a four-time national champion of Portugal; third in the 2016 Tour de France longest TT, behind Dumoulin and Froome; and 7th in the Rio Olympic Games. Even though he was more focused on supporting the team leaders in 2018, he took excellent results at the opening TT in La Vuelta (4th) and the Innsbruck ITT Worlds (5th).
VUELTA STAGE WIN. After some injuries early in his career, Oliveira’s true colours came to the fore during the 2014 Vuelta a España, where he took a spectacular win on stage 13 in Tarazona, leaving behind a 30-strong breakaway with a strong, intelligent solo attack inside the final 25 kilometers.
MULTITASKER. He’s not only a world-class TT specialist: Oliveira also won the 2014 Portuguese road race Championships. His power on flat stages and resistance into the mountains -small hills and even big cols at times- have made him a coveted team player for the Grand Tours, which he has been part of eight times (4 Vueltas / 3 Tours / 2 Giros). He doesn’t do bad on one-day classics, either: he’s finished 12th in San Sebastián and twice within the top-20 of the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
He was actually one of the best riders in the world as an under-23, with a silver medal in the 2009 Mendrisio TT Worlds and two podium finishes in the 2010 European champs in Turkey: a silver in the road race and a bronze in the time trial.
His fifth Portuguese TT champion title in 2017 was denied even before starting the race, as he got to the starting ramp late. The order was altered by the organisers less than two hours before the start of the event, and Nelson, who was racing as an individual with no team staff involved, wasn’t informed about the change, thus avoiding the man from Aveiro to claim a fourth consecutive title in Portugal.
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- Alongside Valverde at Il Lombardia 2018.
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- Flying towards 5th at the Innsbruck TT Worlds.
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- Notching up stage 13 of the 2015 Vuelta a España.
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- With one of his four national TT champion jerseys.
Palmares
6 Victories as professional
1st Portuguese ITT Championship 2016
1st (13th stage) Vuelta a España 2015
1st Portuguese ITT Championship 2015
1st Portuguese RR Championship 2014
1st Portuguese ITT Championship 2014
1st Portuguese ITT Championship 2011
Results
2019
26 Days of Racing
3940.4 Km covered
6th (3rd stage) Challenge Mallorca
6th (1st stage) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
12th (7th stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
12th Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
21th (4th stage) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
21th (3rd stage) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
25th Strade Bianche
30th Tirreno-Adriatico
30th (2nd stage) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
35th (2nd stage) Challenge Mallorca
37th (5th stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
39th (4th stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
41th (2nd stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
43th (1st stage) Challenge Mallorca
45th Ronde van Vlaanderen
59th Dwars door Vlaanderen
62th (3rd stage) UAE Tour
66th UAE Tour
69th (3rd stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
74th (6th stage) UAE Tour
78th (2nd stage) UAE Tour
96th (7th stage) UAE Tour
96th (5th stage) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
99th (5th stage) UAE Tour
121th (6th stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
123th (4th stage) UAE Tour
Vuelta a España
Every cloud has a silver lining. A collarbone fracture suffered at Paris-Roubaix meant Nelson Oliveira wasn’t able to secure -even if strong at the Tour de Suisse- a spot in the much coveted Movistar Team lineup for the Tour de France. However, the incident helped him reach the Vuelta a España in really fresh condition, and also become a crucial element of the Blues’ roster for Spain.
Qualified to perform strongly at both the flat, the mid mountains and even the hardest stages of the race, the Portuguese allrounder -who has finetuned his form in Andorra, where he spends most of the year- comes back to the race where he claimed his most important success in the WorldTour: a stage win at Tarazona in 2015, an edition when he also came close to a top-20 overall finish. Last year, Nelson was also near to a victory on the slopes of the infamous Xorret de Catí, where he finished in 5th place.
2018 schedule (41 racing days) > Tour Down Under (59th); Volta ao Algarve (10th); Strade Bianche (46th); GP Larciano (64th); Tirreno-Adriatico (51st); E3 Harelbeke (32nd); Gent-Wevelgem (76th); Dwars door Vlaanderen (DNF); Ronde van Vlaanderen (62nd); Paris-Roubaix (DNF); Tour de Suisse (60th); Clásica San Sebastián (73rd); Vuelta a Burgos (37th).
Previous Vuelta appearances > 2017: 47th. 2015: 21st + 1 stage win. 2011: 118th.