Imanol Erviti

Imanol Erviti Ollo (born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2023, entirely for and its successors. Primarily working as a domestique, Erviti took three victories as a professional – including two stage victories at the Vuelta a España in 2008 and 2010.

Following his retirement, Erviti became a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam .

Career Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Erviti's first UCI race success came at the 2004 Vuelta a Navarra as an amateur, winning the final stage while riding for the Serbitzu Kirolgi team. He turned professional the following year with . He formed part of two team time trial stage victories in 2007 at the Tour Méditerranéen and the Volta a Catalunya, before taking his first professional victory at the 2008 Vuelta a España. Having missed out on a stage victory when he was caught by the sprinters after an attack with remaining on stage 17, Erviti won the following day after passing Nicolas Roche before the finish line in Las Rozas de Madrid, having been a part of a larger breakaway group.

After being a part of another team time trial stage victory at the 2009 Tour Méditerranéen, Erviti took his second Vuelta a España stage win at the 2010 race, after a solo move in the closing kilometres of the stage. The following year, he won the Vuelta a La Rioja one-day race, out-sprinting teammates Giovanny Báez and Juan Pablo Suárez. He was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed as part of a large pile-up on stage 6 with remaining. Erviti suffered "serious wounds in his right side", that required surgery, a 48-hour hospital stay and as a result, did not start stage 7. He also contested that year's Vuelta a España, again forming part of a stage-winning effort by the in the team time trial. He also formed part of the 's team time trial stage win at the 2014 Vuelta a España.

In 2016, he was in the early breakaway in the two cycling monuments held as cobbled classics, the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. He finished both races in the top 10 – the first Spanish rider to do so in the same year – with his seventh-place finish in the Tour of Flanders being the best result for any rider at the race over the team's history. At the 2021 Tour de France, Erviti finished second on stage twelve, having featured as part of the day's breakaway before Nils Politt soloed away to take the stage victory in Nîmes. He retired at the end of the 2023 season, becoming a directeur sportif with UCI WorldTeam ahead of the 2024 season.

Major results Source:

2004 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra 2007 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour Méditerranéen 2008 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España 2009 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1st Stage 2 (TTT) 2010 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 2011 1st Vuelta a La Rioja 2012 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 2014 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 2016 7th Tour of Flanders 9th Paris–Roubaix 2017 5th Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish