Elia Viviani

Elia Viviani
	Viviani at the 2018 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Born	7 February 1989 (age 35); Isola della Scala, Italy
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ineos Grenadiers
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
2020–2021	Cofidis
2022–	Ineos Grenadiers
Major wins
	Road 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) Great Ocean Road Race (2019) London–Surrey Classic (2019) GP de Fourmies (2021) Track Olympic Games Omnium (2016) World Championships Elimination (2021, 2022)
Medal record
Representing Italy
Men's track cycling
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Men's road bicycle racing
European Championships

Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.^[6] 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.^[7]^[8]

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.^[9] Viviani's nickname in the peloton is "Il Veggente" for his ability to foresee line moves of other sprinters during the sprint.^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12] He ended the season well, becoming the European Track Champion in the omnium, gaining Olympic qualification points in the process.^[13] 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.

Viviani during the omnium at the 2016 Olympic Games.

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.^[14] 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.^[15] 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 underperformed 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.^[16] 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.^[17] 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.^[18]

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 (2022–)

In November 2021, Viviani signed a three-year contract with the Ineos Grenadiers team, from the 2022 season.^[6]

Personal life

Viviani is married^[19] to fellow cyclist Elena Cecchini.^[20] His brother Attilio Viviani is also a professional cyclist.

Major results

Road

2005

European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

1st Road race

1st Criterium

2nd Road race, National Cadet Championships

2009

4th ZLM Tour

7th La Côte Picarde

2010 (3 pro wins)

1st Memorial Marco Pantani

1st Binche–Tournai–Binche

1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Cuba

1st Stage 7 Tour of Turkey

3rd Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico

7th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

2011 (8)

1st Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi

1st Tour de Mumbai I

1st Coppa Città di Stresa

USA Pro Cycling Challenge

1st Stages 4 & 5

Giro di Padania

1st

Points classification

1st

Sprints classification

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 4 Tour of Beijing

1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia

2nd Tour de Mumbai II

2012 (7)

1st

Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

1st

Young rider classification

1st Stages 1 & 2

1st Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi

1st Stage 1 Tour of Beijing

1st Stage 2a Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

1st Stage 6 Tour de San Luis

2nd Memorial Marco Pantani

2013 (6)

1st

Overall Tour of Elk Grove

1st Stages 2 & 3

1st Dutch Food Valley Classic

1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stage 1 Tour of Britain

5th Vattenfall Cyclassics

7th GP Ouest–France

7th Grand Prix de Fourmies

2014 (6)

1st Coppa Bernocchi

Tour of Turkey

1st Stages 5 & 7

1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

1st Stage 4 Tour of Slovenia

1st Stage 4 USA Pro Challenge

2nd Brussels Cycling Classic

3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies

9th RideLondon–Surrey Classic

Giro d'Italia

Held

after Stages 5 & 6

2015 (8)

Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 2

Held

after Stages 2–5, 7–9, 13–16

Tour of Britain

1st Stages 1, 3 & 8

Abu Dhabi Tour

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 2 & 4

1st Stage 1 Eneco Tour

1st Stage 2 Dubai Tour

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Romandie

2nd Trofeo Santanyi–Ses Salines–Campos

3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2016 (2)

1st Stage 2 Dubai Tour

1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne

2017 (9)

1st EuroEyes Cyclassics

1st Bretagne Classic

Tour of Austria

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Stage 3 Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 2 Route du Sud

1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain

2nd

Road race, UEC European Championships

2nd Scheldeprijs

3rd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

5th Overall Dubai Tour

5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 3

5th Coppa Bernocchi

6th Memorial Marco Pantani

6th Coppa Sabatini

9th Milan–San Remo

2018 (18)

1st

Road race, National Championships

1st

Overall Dubai Tour

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 2 & 5

1st EuroEyes Cyclassics

1st Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

Giro d'Italia

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 2, 3, 13 & 17

Vuelta a España

1st Stages 3, 10 & 21

Adriatica Ionica Race

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2, 4 & 5

Abu Dhabi Tour

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 2

1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under

2nd Gent–Wevelgem

2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

2nd London–Surrey Classic

2nd Dwars door het Hageland

6th UCI World Tour

2019 (11)

1st

Road race, UEC European Championships

1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

1st London–Surrey Classic

1st EuroEyes Cyclassics

UAE Tour

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 5

Tour de Suisse

1st Stages 4 & 5

1st Stage 4 Tour de France

1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 4 Okolo Slovenska

2nd Tacx Pro Classic

3rd Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

2020

3rd Clásica de Almería

9th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

10th Race Torquay

2021 (7)

1st Cholet-Pays de la Loire

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues

Adriatica Ionica Race

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 3

Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

1st Stages 1 & 3

3rd Grand Prix du Morbihan

9th Classic Brugge–De Panne

10th Coppa Bernocchi

2022 (2)

1st Stage 1 Tour de la Provence

1st Stage 6 CRO Race

6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

7th Road race, UEC European Championships

2023 (2)

1st Stage 1 Tour of Guangxi

1st Stage 1 CRO Race

3rd Hamburg Cyclassics

9th Bretagne Classic

2024

2nd Surf Coast Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
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	2022	2023	2024
Milan–San Remo	—	—	108	108	—	—	84	9	19	65	39	69	116	—	—
Tour of Flanders	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF
Paris–Roubaix	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	DNF	—	—	NH	—	—	—	DNF
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	Has not contested during his career
Giro di Lombardia	Has not contested during his career
Classic	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne	—	—	—	—	—	3	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Brugge–De Panne	Previously a stage race								1	3	—	9	—	—	—
Gent–Wevelgem	—	—	—	15	—	DNF	DNF	—	2	19	—	—	69	—	DNF
Scheldeprijs	—	—	—	—	42	DNF	46	2	—	—	—	31	—	—	—
London–Surrey Classic	—	—	—	—	9	28	—	11	2	1	Not held		Not held
Hamburg Cyclassics	78	—	—	5	—	14	—	1	1	1	Not held		25	3	52
Bretagne Classic	—	—	—	7	31	15	—	1	—	69	—	—	52	9	—

Major championships timeline

Event		2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Olympic Games	Road race	Not held		38	Not held			—	Not held				—	Not held		DNF
World Championships	Road race	—	80	—	—	—	89	20	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
European Championships	Road race	Race did not exist						—	2	20	1	—	—	7	44	—
National Championships	Road race	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	33	DNF	1	DNF	DNF	—	14	DNF	DNF