Elia Viviani

Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian former professional cyclist, who competed from 2010 to 2025 and last rode for UCI ProTeam Lotto. 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.

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

After retiring, he re-joined his former team Ineos Grenadiers as a directeur sportif.

Career Team Sky (2015–17) 2015 season Viviani signed for on 24 October 2014 after considering offers from and the . 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. 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. He ended the season well, becoming the European Track Champion in the omnium, gaining Olympic qualification points in the process. 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 team before the 2018 season, replacing Marcel Kittel who joined . 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. 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 's Matteo Moschetti. 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. 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.

Cofidis (2020–21) In August 2019, Viviani was announced to be joining for the 2020 season along with his lead-out man Fabio Sabatini.

Personal life Viviani is married to fellow cyclist Elena Cecchini. 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 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 2025 (1) 1st Stage 7 Tour of Turkey

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — 119 145 125 DNF — 132 DNF 112 135 — — — — Tour de France — — 162 — — — — 130 135 — — — — — Vuelta a España 128 — — — — — 145 — — — — — — 150

Classics results timeline

Major championships timeline

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Track

2006 1st Scratch, UEC European Junior Championships National Junior Championships 1st Madison 1st Team sprint

2007 UEC European Junior Championships 1st Points race

1st Madison, National Championships National Junior Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Team sprint 3rd Scratch

2008 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Scratch 1st Madison (with Tomas Alberio)

National Championships 1st Team pursuit 2nd Points race 2nd Scratch 2009 1st Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Championships National Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Omnium 2nd Madison 2010 National Championships 1st Omnium 3rd Madison 2011 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Omnium 1st Points race

National Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Madison (with Davide Cimolai) 1st Points race 2nd Scratch 2nd Team pursuit 2nd Kilo 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Jacopo Guarnieri)

3rd Omnium, UCI World Cup, Astana 2012 UEC European Championships 1st Points race

National Championships 1st Derny 1st Madison (with Michele Scartezzini) 1st Team pursuit 1st 3 Sere di Bassano del Grappa (with Franco Marvulli) 2013 UEC European Championships 1st Points race 1st Madison (with Liam Bertazzo) National Championships 1st Madison (with Michele Scartezzini) 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit 2nd Individual pursuit 2nd Kilo 2nd Team sprint 3rd Derny 3rd Scratch 2014 1st Omnium, UEC European Championships National Championships 1st Omnium 2nd Individual pursuit 2015

1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Alex Buttazzoni) UCI World Championships

2016

1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Michele Scartezzini) 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Iljo Keisse) 2017 1st Six Days of Turin (with Francesco Lamon) 2018 UEC European Championships 1st Team pursuit

1st Six Days of Ghent (with Iljo Keisse) 3rd Omnium, UCI World Cup, London 2019 1st Elimination, UEC European Championships 1st Omnium, National Championships 1st Six Days of London (with Simone Consonni) 2021 UCI World Championships 1st Elimination

National Championships 1st Points race 2nd Elimination 3rd Madison (with Attilio Viviani)

2022 1st Elimination, UCI World Championships 1st Elimination, UEC European Championships 1st Elimination, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow National Championships 1st Omnium 1st Points race 2nd Individual pursuit 3rd Six Days of Rotterdam (with Vincent Hoppezak) 2023 National Championships 1st Scratch 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 2nd Elimination 3rd Madison (with Matteo Donegà) 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Michele Scartezzini)

2024 1st Three Days of London (with Simone Consonni)

UCI Nations Cup, Adelaide 2nd Omnium 3rd Team pursuit 2025 1st Elimination, UCI World Championships 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Jasper De Buyst) 3rd Six Days of Bremen (with Simone Consonni) 3rd Six Days of Berlin (with Michele Scartezzini)