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Liquigas–Cannondale
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. History The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Italian companies Liquigas and Bianchi (bicycle manufacturer), Bianchi, therefore it was named Liquigas–Bianchi. It featured a number of big names including Italian riders Mario Cipollini, Danilo Di Luca and Stefano Garzelli, as well as Magnus Bäckstedt. In 2007, Cannondale replaced Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marked Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre–Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season. Being an American company, their sponsorship led to a small American ridership on the team. On 11 July 2008 the news broke from the French sports paper L'Equipe that Spanish rider Manuel Beltrán had tested positive for Erythropoietin, EPO after the first stage of the tour. It was blood abnorma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI World Tour
The UCI WorldTour (2009–2010: ''UCI World Ranking'') is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon performances in these. The World Ranking was launched in 2009, and merged fully with its predecessor the UCI ProTour in 2011. UCI WorldTeams must compete at all events that were part of the tour prior to the 2017 expansion. History Until the end of 2004, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) maintained both the UCI Road World Rankings, which awarded results for all its sanctioned races, and the UCI Road World Cup, which was awarded on the basis of performance in ten selected one-day events. Both were replaced from the 2005 season by the UCI ProTour and UCI Continental Circuits. However, disputes between the UCI and ASO, the organisers of the Tour de France and other classics, and eventually with the organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristijan Koren
Kristijan Koren (born 25 November 1986) is a Slovenian professional road racing cyclist. He currently rides for UCI Continental Circuits, UCI Continental team where he won 2022 Slovenian National Road Race Championships, Slovenian National Road Race.He was previously banned from the cycling in 2011-2012 () and in 2018 () Biography Born on 25 November 1986, in Postojna, Slovenia, Koren currently resides in Budanje, Slovenia. Koren turned professional with , a UCI ProTeam, in 2010. He remained with for the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons. Koren signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2015 season. He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. In 2019, Koren was banned for two years after it was found that he had doped. The discovery was part of Operation Aderlass. Major results ;2006 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st Slovenian National Time Trial Championships#Men, Time trial ::3rd Slovenian National Road Race Championships#Men, Road race : 5th Time tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Koch
Michel Koch (born 15 October 1991) is a German former track and road racing cyclist. Both his grandfather, Wolfgang Koch as well as his parents Christian Koch and Petra Koch, born Stegherr (Mettmann), were successful cyclists. Major results ;2009 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 1st Team pursuit, National Junior Track Championships : 1st Stage 2 La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziadz : 5th Overall Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt : 6th Overall Driedaagse van Axel : 7th Time trial, UCI Juniors World Championships : 9th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships ;2010 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd Time trial : 5th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 : 10th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho ;2011 : 6th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 7th Overall Ronde de l'Isard ;2012 : National Track Championships ::1st Team pursuit ::3rd Individual pursuit : 1st Overall Bundesliga : 2nd Ingolst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted King (cyclist)
Edward Carrington King (born January 31, 1983) is a retired American professional road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam . King turned professional in 2006 and raced for ten years, retiring from contemporary road racing in 2015. He quickly segued to the burgeoning world of gravel cycling, where he has been a pioneer in the world of competitive gravel racing. Personal Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, King spent his adolescence in Brentwood, New Hampshire, United States. In 2005, he graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States where he studied economics and mathematics. During his career King resided in both Girona, Catalonia, Spain and Lucca, Italy. Though he shares a surname with several other professional cyclists, in the pro peloton Ted only shares family relation to his older brother Robert "Robbie" King, who was a professional cyclist from 2006-2008. King's father, also Ted King, was an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Exeter for 25 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Gatto
Oscar Gatto (born 1 January 1985) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2020, for seven different teams. His nickname is 'Oscar the Cat' because his surname (Gatto) is the Italian word for "cat", and his first name is Oscar. Career Born in Montebelluna, Gatto left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. In 2015, he rode for . In October 2015 it was announced that Gatto would join for the 2016 season, with the team's directeur sportif Steven de Jongh describing his main role as providing support for Peter Sagan in the classics. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France. Major results ;2004 : 4th Circuito del Porto ;2005 : 1st Giro del Canavese : 1st Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta ;2006 : 1st Coppa Città di Asti : 1st Stage 6 Giro delle Regioni : 5th Gran Premio della Liberazione : 7th Giro del Canavese : 10th Giro del Belvedere ;2007 : 2nd Overall Paris–Corrèze ;2009 : 1st Stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Formolo
, birth_date = , birth_place = Negrar, Italy , death_date = , death_place = , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ridertype = Climber , amateuryears1 = 2011–2013 , amateurteam1 = Petroli–Firenze , proyears1 = 2014 , proteam1 = , proyears2 = 2015–2017 , proteam2 = , proyears3 = 2018–2019 , proteam3 = , proyears4 = 2020– , proteam4 = , majorwins = Grand Tours : Giro d'Italia ::1 individual stage (2015) One-day races and Classics : , medaltemplates = , show-medals = Davide Formolo (born 25 October 1992) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Formolo turned professional in 2014. Biography Born on 25 October 1992, in Negrar, Italy, Formolo resides in Marano di Valpolicella, Veneto, Italy. He signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2014 season. Formolo sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro De Marchi (cyclist)
Alessandro De Marchi (born 19 May 1986) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in San Daniele del Friuli, De Marchi has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, joining the squad after a stagiaire spell with the team at the end of the 2010 season. In the 2012 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi twice featured in a breakaway, during the fifth and fourteenth stages. In the latter stage, De Marchi made it to the end of the stage with the breakaway and finished third, behind Andrey Amador and Jan Bárta; the result came on his 26th birthday. In the 2014 Tour de France, De Marchi was twice declared the 'most combative' rider of a stage, and earned the Tour's overall combativity award. De Marchi claimed his first Grand Tour stage win on Stage 7 of the 2014 Vuelta a España via an early breakaway and he finished solo. announced that De Marchi would be joining them for the 2015 season. In September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damiano Caruso
Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the road race. Career Born in Ragusa, Sicily, Caruso has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the , and teams, before joining for the 2011 season. In October 2011, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) requested for Caruso to be suspended from competition for two years, although backdated from December 2010, in relation to a doping offence in 2007. He was given a backdated one-year ban in February 2012, allowing for him to return to competition without being banned, but all his 2011 results were voided. Caruso held the lead of the young rider classification at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, after 's Peter Stetina lost time on the eighth stage. In August 2014, Caruso signed a multi-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Boivin
Guillaume Boivin (born 25 May 1989) is a Canadian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Boivin's greatest cycling accomplishment was finishing in a dead heat for the bronze at the World Under-23 Road Race Championships in 2010. He finished 3rd in the 2012 Tro Bro Leon, getting on the podium with his teammate Ryan Roth, who won the race. In October 2014, it was announced that Boivin would leave Cannondale and ride with in 2015. On 29 April 2015, on the first stage of the Tour of the Gila, Boivin was the last man remaining of a breakaway that was caught by eventual solo winner, Rafael Montiel. Boivin took the second place of the mountaintop finish. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. 2020 Olympics In July 2021, Boivin was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team. Major results Source: ;2006 : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Abitibi ;2007 : 4th Overall Tour de l'Abitibi ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Bodnar
Maciej Bodnar (born 7 March 1985, in Oława) is a Polish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Łukasz Bodnar. Bodnar has been a team-mate of Peter Sagan throughout Sagan's career. Major results ;2006 : 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2007 : 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st Grand Prix Bradlo ;2008 : National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race : 7th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique ;2009 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships ;2010 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 1b ( TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race : 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships ;2012 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne ;2013 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships ;2014 : 1st Stage 3b ( ITT) Three Days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bettiol
Alberto Bettiol (born 29 October 1993) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Bettiol turned professional in 2014, with his first professional win coming at the 2019 Tour of Flanders. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Road race, and Time trial. Biography Born on 29 October 1993, in Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Bettiol resides in Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. Bettiol signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2014 season. He signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2015 season. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. 2019 After spending the 2018 season in BMC Racing Team, he returned to his previous team (now called EF Education First Pro Cycling). After a strong performance at the Tirreno–Adriatico, most notably finishing 3rd on the second stage and 2nd on the final stage ( an individual time trial), he won his first professional race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
