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1999 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 1999 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 34th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race and was held from 10 March to 17 March 1999. The race started in Sorrento and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Michele Bartoli of the Mapei (cycling team), Mapei team. Teams Twenty-five teams participated in the race: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Route General classification References Further reading * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tirreno-Adriatico, 1999 Tirreno–Adriatico, 1999 1999 in Italian sport March 1999 sports events in Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bartoli
Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful classic cycle races, single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races. On his palmarès are three of the five Cycling monument, monuments of cycling—five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 UCI Road World Cup, 1997 and 1998 UCI Road World Cup, 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings. Considered one of the most versatile riders of his generation, Bartoli won a variety of classics. He won most of the major Italian one-day races—apart from Milan–San Remo—and was Italian National Road Race Championships, Italian national champion in 2000. In B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torricella Sicura
Torricella Sicura is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is located in the natural park known as the "Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park". Geography The town is located about from the provincial capital of Teramo. It is divided into neighborhoods : *Torricella Oscura *Torricella Scarpone - the area surrounding the town castle *Torricella Romana - the area surrounding the house of the illustrious Romani family *Torricella Case Nuove - area in which homes have most recently been constructed *Centro - town centre History The town most likely takes the first part of its name from an ancient castle once found just to the north. The local gentry still refer to this area as "lu castille" (the castle). In the late 18th century there is mention of a tunnel that led from the castle to the surrounding countryside. Legend has it that somewhere in this area is an enormous grotto containing a vast treasure under the watchful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Casarotto
Davide Casarotto (born 19 July 1971 in Vicenza) is an Italian former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1996 to 2003. Major results ;1995 :1st Giro d'Oro ;1996 :1st Gran Premio della Liberazione ;1997 :1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico :3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato :3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie :3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano :5th Tour of Flanders :5th Paris–Roubaix ;2000 :1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour ;2001 :1st Grand Prix de Rennes :1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Aragón :2nd Grand Prix de Denain ;2002 :1st Stage 5 Bayern-Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt () was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was organised as a 2.HC ev ... References External links * 1971 births Living people Italian male cyclists Sportspeople from Vicenza Cyclists from the Province of Vicenza {{Italy-cycli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Camenzind
Oscar Camenzind (born 12 September 1971) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He became national road champion in 1997. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 the Tour de Suisse and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2001. His career came to an abrupt end when he retired from pro cycling after a positive doping test in July 2004 for erythropoietin, leading into the Athens Olympics. After confessing to the use, in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution. Major results ;1989 : 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;1994 : 2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto ;1996 : 2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ::1st Stages 2, 3b & 4 : 2nd À travers Lausanne : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall Giro di Puglia ;1997 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ::1st Stage 4b : 1st Brei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Jenner
Christopher Jenner (born 3 November 1974) is a former French professional cyclist. He became a French national in June 2000 though his marriage. Major results ;1994 : 2nd Tour de la Creuse ;1996 : 1st Grand Prix du Pays d'Aix : 2nd Tour de la Creuse : 3rd Grand Prix Cristal Energie : 3rd Grand Prix de la ville de Buxerolles ;1997 : 1st Grand Prix de la ville de Buxerolles : 2nd Ronde de l'Isard : 3rd Bordeaux-Saintes ;1999 : 1st stage 7 Tour de l'Avenir : 2nd Tour de l'Ain :: 1st stage 5 : 3rd Trophée des Grimpeurs : 8th of Tirreno–Adriatico ;2000 : 7th Tour de Picardie : 8th Étoile de Bessèges : 9th GP de Fourmies : 10th Bayern Rundfahrt ;2001 : 1st stage 5 Tour de France (TTT) : 1st Tour of Wellington :: 1st stages 1 and 4 : 5th Tour Down Under : 5th Le Tour de Langkawi ;2002 : 1st Boucles de l'Aulne : 9th Bayern Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt () was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Hamburger
Bo Hamburger (born 24 May 1970 in Frederiksberg) is a Denmark, Danish former professional Bicycle road racing, road racing cyclist. He retired in 2006. Biography After ending his career, Hamburger started a building company and a bike shop. He was the leading directeur sportif for in 2013 and 2014. Doping He was fired from Team CSC in 2001, after a positive Erythropoietin, EPO test. He was later cleared legally since the B test was below the limit, but still higher than normal. Since then, the Danish Cycle Union refused to let Hamburger represent Denmark. Hamburger fought the exclusion through legal means. In his book ''Den største pris – en cykelrytters bekendelser'' (''The Greatest Cost – Confession of a Cyclist'') released in Denmark on 7 November 2007, he admitted to using EPO and human growth hormone from 1995 to 1997. His name was also on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Spezialetti
Alessandro Spezialetti (born 14 January 1975 in Lachen, Switzerland) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 1997 and 2012. He was known as a lieutenant, or top domestique in Grand Tours. Major results ;1996 : 2nd Overall Giro delle Regioni ::1st Prologue & Stage 3b : 2nd Trofeo Zsšdi : 2nd : 3rd La Popolarissima : 3rd Coppa della Pace ;1998 : 6th Subida a Urkiola ;1999 : 3rd Giro di Toscana : 4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano : 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ;2000 : 9th GP Miguel Induráin ;2001 : 1st Stage 2 Giro d'Abruzzo : 9th Trofeo Matteotti ;2003 : 2nd Trofeo Matteotti : 9th Japan Cup ;2007 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ... Grand Tour general classifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Jalabert
Laurent Jalabert (born 30 November 1968) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as ''"Jaja"'' (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname stuck because of the similarity to his name), he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the world in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Although he never won the Tour de France, where he suffered altitude sickness, he won the Vuelta a España in 1995; as well as the leader's jersey, he won the sprinting specialist, sprinter's jersey and climbing specialist, climber's jersey in the same race — only the third rider to have done this in a Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour. With Alessandro Petacchi, Eddy Merckx, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and Mark Cavendish, he is one of only five riders to win the points classification in all three grand tours. Biography He turned professional with the French Toshiba team in 1989 and quickly esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ján Svorada
Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist. He was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, he raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic. When Svorada won Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France he became a rarity in professional cycling because at that point he became a Tour de France stage winner who won at least one stage with two different nationalities. His first stage win at the Tour de France (Stage 7 in 1994) was obtained as a Slovak cyclist, and later he won also a stage in 1998 as a Czech rider. He competed for the Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1988 :1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour ;1990 :1st Overall Peace Race ::1st Active rider classification ::1st Sprints classification ::1st Combination classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 9b :1st Stage 2 GP Tell ;1992 :1st Stage 1 Tour de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven De Jongh
Steven de Jongh (born 25 November 1973) is a Dutch former road bicycle racer. Biography de Jongh made his professional debut in 1995 at TVM (cycling team), TVM team where he stayed until 1999. From 2000 to 2005 he was part of , while he made the move to in 2006. De Jongh retired as a rider after the 2009 season. He was a Directeur sportif at Team Sky for three years, leaving in October 2012 after admitting he had taken illegal substances earlier in his career. In January 2013 he joined Team Saxo-Tinkoff as a sports director. After the Tinkoff team announced their disbanding at the conclusion of the 2016 season, in September 2016 confirmed that de Jongh would join them from 2017, along with Tinkoff riders Alberto Contador and Jesús Hernández (cyclist), Jesús Hernández. Major results ;1992 : 3rd Dorpenomloop Rucphen ;1994 : 1st Ronde van Zuid-Holland : 1st Dokkum Woudenomloop : 1st Stage 11 Commonwealth Bank Classic : 1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 1st Stage 6 Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civitanova Marche
Civitanova Marche () is a (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about east of Macerata. Geography Civitanova Marche borders the municipalities: Montecosaro, Porto Sant'Elpidio, Potenza Picena and Sant'Elpidio a Mare. It counts the hamlets (''frazioni'') of Civitanova Alta, Fontespina, Maranello, Risorgimento, San Marone and Santa Maria Apparente. Geography The territory is heterogeneous. In the southern Risorgimento, Centro and Santa Maria Apparente districts, the city lies on the Chienti river floodplain, formed in the Holocene. Along the coast, the Centro, Fontespina and San Gabriele districts lie partially on coastal plain sediments. The area is 46.07 km2. The altitude ranges from 3 to 223 meters above sea level. The typical ''"a pettine''" shape that distinguishes Marche hills is recognizable. Climate According to the climatic averages between 1971 and 2000, the average temperatures of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Adriatica
Alba Adriatica is a town and ''comune'' with 12,386 residents (2014) in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of central eastern Italy. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" of the northern Abruzzo coast, i.e. the seven coastal towns in the province of Teramo Teramo (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast. Th ..., the other six being (from north to south) Martinsicuro, Tortoreto, Giulianova, Roseto degli Abruzzi, Pineto and Silvi Marina. It is also nicknamed ''Spiaggia d'argento'' (Silver Beach) because of the high quality standard of its beach, which earned the town the European Blue Flag in years from 2000 to 2013. The ''comune'' of Alba Adriatica was created in 1956 by splitting it off from Tortoreto. People * Aldo Zilli, chef * Ivan Palazzese, motorcycle road r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
