Winner Anacona

Winner Anacona
Anacona in 2020
Personal information
Full nameWinner Andrew Anacona Gomez
Born (1988-08-11) 11 August 1988 (age 36)
Coper, Boyacá, Colombia
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamColombia Potencia de la Vida–Strongman
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur teams
2008Centri della Calzatura–Partizan (stagiaire)
2009G.S. Maltinti
2010–2011Caparrini
2023–Colombia Pacto por el Deporte
Professional teams
2012–2014Lampre–ISD
2015–2019Movistar Team[1]
2020–2022Arkéa–Samsic[2][3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2014)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Anacona and the second or maternal family name is Gomez.

Winner Andrew Anacona Gomez (born 11 August 1988) is a Colombian road cyclist, who rides for Colombian amateur team Colombia Potencia de la Vida–Strongman.[4]

Career

Lampre–ISD (2012–2014)

He impressed the Lampre–ISD team managers after getting second place of the 2011 Girobio, a smaller version of the Giro d'Italia for younger riders.[5] The team signed him for 2012 and 2013. In December 2012, Anacona was injured in a training crash, after he collided with a dog. He suffered a broken peroneal malleolus and dislocated his ankle bone.[5]

In the mountainous 2014 Tour of Utah, Anacona helped his leader Chris Horner obtain the second place of the race, taking the third step of the podium himself.[6] On the mountaintop finish of Stage 9 of the 2014 Vuelta a España, Anacona almost took the leader's jersey by soloing to the line for the stage victory. He attacked from a breakaway of 31 riders and missed the top spot in the overall classification by a mere 9 seconds.[7]

Movistar Team (2015–2019)

In 2015, Anacona went to Movistar Team on an initial two-year contract.[8] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[9]

Arkéa–Samsic (2020–2022)

In September 2019, it was announced that Anacona – along with Dayer Quintana and Nairo Quintana – was moving to the Arkéa–Samsic team for the 2020 season.[10] During his three years with the team, he won the 2021 Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer – held as part of the Vuelta a Mallorca – and the mountains classification at the 2022 Route d'Occitanie.[11][12]

Personal life

Anacona was named after cyclists Peter Winnen and Andrew Hampsten, but due to a mistake, his first name became Winner instead of Winnen.[13]

Major results

Source: [14]

2006
National Junior Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Points race
1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2009
10th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2010
2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
8th Overall Girobio
10th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
2011
2nd Overall Girobio
1st Stage 5
6th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
2012
10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
2014
1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Utah
2015
6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
2016
6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
9th Overall Abu Dhabi Tour
2019
1st Overall Vuelta a San Juan
1st Stage 5
4th Overall Tour of Austria
8th Circuito de Getxo
2020
3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2021
1st Trofeo Andratx – Mirador d'Es Colomer
2022
1st Mountains classification, Route d'Occitanie
2023
10th Overall Vuelta a Boyacá

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — 62 — — 25 — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — 57 69 — — — 66
A red jersey Vuelta a España 19 105 27 — — — 69 — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Franck Bonnamour et Romain Le Roux avec Arkéa-Samsic en 2020" [Franck Bonnamour and Romain Le Roux with Arkéa-Samsic in 2020]. Arkéa–Samsic (in French). Pro Cycling Breizh. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Team Arkea - Samsic". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Una pista sobre el futuro del ciclista Nairo Quintana" [A clue about the future of cyclist Nairo Quintana]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Grupo Godó. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023. Colombia Pacto por el Deporte fue el equipo escogido por Dáyer y Anacona para competir en este 2023. [Colombia Pacto por el Deporte was the team chosen by Dáyer and Anacona to compete in 2023].
  5. ^ a b Ben Atkins (25 December 2012). "Winner Anacona injured in training crash". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  6. ^ "GENERAL CLASSIFICATION STANDINGS". Tour of Utah. Tour of Utah 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  7. ^ Peter Cossins (31 August 2014). "Vuelta a España: Anacona wins stage 9 on climb to Valdelinares". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  8. ^ "News shorts: US team looks ahead to 2015 Worlds in Richmond". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  9. ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  10. ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair; Fletcher, Patrick (2 September 2019). "Quintana confirmed for Arkéa-Samsic in 2020". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 24 November 2019. Quintana's brother, Dayer, will also join, along with Winner Anacona, a fellow Colombian and key ally at Movistar, and Diego Rosa, who has ridden for Team Ineos for the past two years.
  11. ^ "Anacona wins Trofeo Andratx 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 15 May 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  12. ^ "Michael Woods remporte la Route d'Occitanie, Winner Anacona meilleur grimpeur" [Michael Woods wins the Route d'Occitanie, Winner Anacona best climber]. Le Télégramme (in French). Groupe Télégramme. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Vuelta Stage 9: Nairo Quintana takes lead as Winner Anacona lives up to name". road.cc. 31 August 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  14. ^ "Winner Anacona". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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