Marco Villa (born February 8, 1969 in

Abbiategrasso Abbiategrasso, formerly written Abbiate Grasso. (local lmo, Biegrass ; lmo, label= Milanese, Biaa ), is a ''comune'' and town in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy, situated in the Po valley approximately from Milan and ...

) is an Italian former professional

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and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. He won the bronze medal in the men's

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at the

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in Sydney, Australia alongside

Silvio Martinello Silvio Martinello (born 19 January 1963) is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the bronze medal in the men's madison ...

. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004.

Major results

Track

Six-day race wins

Six Days of Grenoble The Six Days of Grenoble (french: Six jours cyclistes de Grenoble) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png ...

: 1995 (with

); 2002 (with

Adriano Baffi Adriano Baffi (born 7 August 1962) is a former Italian bicycle road racer. After his career as a rider, he became a team director. He is the son of Italian bicycle racer Pierino Baffi. Baffi was born in Vailate, Italy. He joined Luxembourg te ...

) * Six Days of Bassano del Grappa: 1996 (with Silvio Martinello); 1998 (with Adriano Baffi) *

Six Days of Bordeaux The Six Days of Bordeaux (french: Six Jours de Bordeaux) was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the ...

: 1996 and 1997 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Bremen: 1996 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Milan: 1996, 1997 and 1999 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Medellín: 1997 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Zurich: 1997 (with Silvio Martinello) *

Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred ...

: 1998 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Copenhagen: 1998 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Berlin: 1998, 2000 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Turin: 2001, 2002, 2004 (with

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); 2005 (with Sebastian Donadio) *

Six Days of Stuttgart The Six Days of Stuttgart was a Six-day racing, six-day track cycling race held annually in Stuttgart, Germany. Winners References

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: 2001 (with Silvio Martinello) * Six Days of Fiorenzuola d'Arda: 2001 (with Ivan Quaranta); 2006 (with

Franco Marvulli Franco Marvulli (born 11 November 1978 in Zürich) is a Swiss professional racing cyclist. Palmares ;2000 : 3rd, National U23 Time Trial Championship ;2001 : European Omnium Champion : 1st, Six-Days of Grenoble (with Alexander Äschbach) : 2n ...

) *

Six Days of Amsterdam The Six Days of Amsterdam ( nl, Zesdaagse van Amsterdam) is a Six-day racing, six-day track cycling race held at the Amsterdam Velodrome in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The recordholder for the Six Days of Amsterdam is the Dutch cyclist Danny Stam ...

: 2002 (with Silvio Martinello)

Road

;1991 : 1st Time trial, Mediterranean Games : 2nd Circuito del Porto ;1994 : 1st Stage 8

Coca-Cola Trophy The Coca-Cola Trophy was a series of criterium cycling races held annually throughout Germany from 1979 to 2000. The competition consisted of up to eight races contested in different German cities, generally located in the south of the country such ...

;1997 : 8th

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;1998 : 4th Overall

Tour of Japan The Tour of Japan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Japan since 1996 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race. History Tour of Japan was form ...

;2000 : 8th First Union Wilmington Classic

References

* 1969 births Living people People from Abbiategrasso Italian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Cyclists from the Metropolitan City of Milan Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Italian track cyclists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in cycling Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub