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Richard Carapaz
Full Na me : Richard Ca rapa z
Born : Ma y 29, 1993 in Ca rch i P ro vin ce,
E cuad o r
Na ti onal it y : Ecu ado rian
Ri de r Type : Climbe r
Current Te am : Team Ineo s
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
General Classification (2019)
3 individual stage (2018, 2019)
His arrival at cycling's top table was a surprise to many – he wasn't cited as a
pre-Giro favourite – but the signs were there if anyone had cared to look. “I
started training for the Giro back in October, after I finished the Tour of Spain.
I discussed it with the team and my coach and my 2019 season was 100 per
cent focused on the Giro. There was never a question of me riding the Tour
this year,” explained Carapaz. The fact that he had finished fourth overall in
2018 seemed to have escaped everyone's notice, with observers assuming
that Mikel Landa would lead the Movistar team. A stage victory and overall
success in May's Vuelta Asturias should have been a wake-up call to rivals.
“That was the first sign I had that the work I had been doing was paying off. It
was a good step forward and confirmed I was in good shape for the Giro,” he
explained.
In the background of Carapaz' victory there's another first. Carapaz is the first
Grand Tour winner to be trained by a woman, Spaniard Iosune Murillo.
Richard Carapaz
When Carapaz joined Movistar's amateur feeder team – Equipo Lizarte – it
was based in Pamplona and he was allocated Murillo. “Yes, I've been working
with Iosune for four years now,” explained Carapaz, “she stays close in
Pamplona and we talk most days on the phone and when I'm in Ecuador, we
use WhatsApp or Telegram. We have a good relationship, it's more like a
dialogue, a discussion, it’s not just about looking at data.”
Carapaz' needs were, in fact, relatively simple, the pink-bands on his Pro SL
team bib shorts, a few pairs of matching socks in 'maglia rosa' pink and,
trickiest of all, some custom-made track mitts since Movistar-branded pink
mitts in size small are not – currently – part of the team standard issue.
However, given Nairo Quintana's victory in 2014 and now Carapaz, perhaps
it’s time for a new colour option to come as standard in Endura's Movistar
team replica range?