| Néstor Javier Ayala | |
| Fullname: | Néstor Javier Ayala Ayala |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Sport: | Para cycling |
| Disability Class: | T2 |
| Worlds: | 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
| Regionals: | 2011, 2015, 2019 |
| Nationals: | 2020 |
| Paralympics: | 2016 |
| Show-Medals: | y |
Néstor Javier Ayala Ayala is a Colombian paracyclist, who came third in the men's road race T1–2 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. He has also won medals at the 2013, 2015 and 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, and multiple medals at the Parapan American Games.
Ayala is from Bogotá, Colombia.[1] He studied Physical Education at the University of Santo Tomas.[1]
Ayala started cycling in 2007.[1] He competes in T2 classification events, for athletes with cerebral palsy.[1] He won gold medals at the 2011 and 2015 Parapan American Games, and a silver medal at the 2019 Parapan American Games.[1]
At the 2013 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Ayala came third in both the road race and time trial T2 events.[2] In May 2014, he won a Paralympic World Cup event in Italy.[3] At the 2015 World Championships, Ayala came second in the 28km road race.[4]
Ayala came third in the men's road race T1–2 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[5] He also came seventh in the time trial T1–2 event at the Games.[6] At the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Ayala finished fourth in the time trial T2 event, a fraction of a second behind Stephen Hills, who finished third.[5] At the 2018 World Championships, Ayala finished third in the road race T2 event.[7] He competed at the 2019 World Championships, but did not win a medal.[8] That year, he also came fourth in a World Cup road race event in Italy.[9] At the 2020 Colombian National Championships, Ayala won the road race event, and finished second in the time trial.[10]
Ayala won the Spanish; Castilian: Acord Bogotá-IDRD award in 2013[11] and 2014.[12]