Maximilian Sciandri (born 15 February 1967) is a retired
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road racing cyclist
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of
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descent. He competed as an Italian national up to February 1995, then took British citizenship. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta
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,
USA
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. He was a professional rider from 1989 to 2004. Sciandri subsequently worked for the as a
Directeur sportif
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from 2011 to 2018, having previously ridden for team manager
Jim Ochowicz
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at the
Motorola
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team in the 1990s.
Prior to joining BMC he worked with
British Cycling
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, helping to establish their base in
Quarrata
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Main sights
*Propositura (church) of Santa Maria Assunta
*Pieve (pleban church) of San B ...
, and developing riders such as
Mark Cavendish
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and
Geraint Thomas
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.
In October 2018 it emerged that Sciandri would join the as a directeur sportif from the 2019 season.
Major results
;1989
: 1st
Giro della Romagna
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: 2nd
Giro del Lazio
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;1990
:
Vuelta a Aragón
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::1st Stages 2, 3a, 4, 5 & 6
: 1st
Giro della Romagna
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: 1st
Grand Prix Pino Cerami
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: 3rd Overall
Tour de Luxembourg
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;1991
: 1st Stage 11
Giro d'Italia
: 3rd Overall
Three Days of De Panne
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::1st Stage 1a
: 3rd Overall Settimana Siciliana
;1992
: 1st
Overall
Kellogg's Tour
::1st Stage 2
: 1st Stage 3
Giro d'Italia
: 1st Stage 5
Tour de Romandie
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: 2nd
Paris–Camembert
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;1993
: 1st
Overall
Tour de Luxembourg
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::1st Stages 1 & 2
: 1st
Giro del Veneto
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In 2012 the race merged with another Italian classic, Coppa ...
: 1st
Grand Prix de Fourmies
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...
: 1st
Coppa Placci
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The race is named after Antonio Placci, a cyclist born in Imola w ...
: 1st Stage 2 Settimana Sciliana
: 3rd
UCI Road World Cup
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History
The competition was inaugurated in 1989, and replaced the Super Prestige Pernod Internati ...
: 3rd
Milan–San Remo
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: 3rd
Giro di Lombardia
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;1994
: 1st Stage 16
Giro d'Italia
: 1st Stage 4
Giro del Trentino
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: 2nd
Giro del Lazio
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;1995
: 1st Stage 11
Tour de France
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: 1st
Leeds International Classic
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It was first held in 1989 in Newcastle, moving to Brig ...
: 1st
Grand Prix de Fourmies
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...
: 1st Stage 2
Tirreno–Adriatico
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: 1st Stage 3a
Three Days of De Panne
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3, three, or III may also refer to:
* AD 3, the third year of the AD era
* 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
* March, the third month
Books
* ''Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 n ...
: 7th
Clásica de San Sebastián
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: 8th
UCI Road World Cup
The UCI Road World Cup was a season-long Road bicycle racing, road cycling competition held from 1989 until 2004 and comprising ten one-day events.
History
The competition was inaugurated in 1989, and replaced the Super Prestige Pernod Internati ...
: 9th
Tour of Flanders
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;1996
: 1st Stage 8
Paris–Nice
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: 2nd
Leeds International Classic
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It was first held in 1989 in Newcastle, moving to Brig ...
: 3rd
Road race,
Olympic Games
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: 4th
Milan–San Remo
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;1997
: 2nd
Paris–Tours
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: 2nd
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competit ...
: 2nd
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicy ...
: 2nd
Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
The Gran Premio Città di Camaiore was a road bicycle race held in Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitio ...
: 5th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
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: 6th
Rochester International Classic
: 7th
UCI Road World Cup
The UCI Road World Cup was a season-long Road bicycle racing, road cycling competition held from 1989 until 2004 and comprising ten one-day events.
History
The competition was inaugurated in 1989, and replaced the Super Prestige Pernod Internati ...
;1998
:
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
::1st Stages 1 & 5
: 3rd
Tre Valli Varesine
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It is usually the first and most important race of Trittico Lombardo, which c ...
: 6th
Clásica de San Sebastián
The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the mo ...
;1999
: 2nd
Grand Prix de Fourmies
The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...
: 8th
Clásica de San Sebastián
The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the mo ...
: 8th
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
The Coppa Ugo Agostoni is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Lissone, Italy. The race is held in memory of Italian cyclist Ugo Agostoni, winner of prestigious classic Milan–San Remo, killed during World War II. It is also called ''Gir ...
;2000
: 1st
Giro del Lazio
The Giro del Lazio is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the region of Lazio, Italy. From 2005 to 2008, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing ...
: 1st Stage 5 Rapport Tour
;2001
: 7th
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
: 7th
Giro di Lombardia
The Giro di Lombardia ( en, Tour of Lombardy), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five 'Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in cy ...
References
External links
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Official Tour de France results for Max Sciandri
1967 births
Living people
British male cyclists
English male cyclists
British Tour de France stage winners
Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Sportspeople from Derby
English people of Italian descent
Italian British sportspeople
Olympic medalists in cycling
Italian male cyclists
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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