Davide Cimolai

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Davide Cimolai
Davide Cimolai TDF 2013 (Cropping).jpg
Cimolai at the 2013 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full nameDavide Cimolai
NicknameCimo
Born (1989-08-13) 13 August 1989 (age 34)
Pordenone, Italy
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current team Movistar Team
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Sprinter
  • Lead-out man
Amateur team
2008–2009 Marchiol–Liquigas–Site
Professional teams
2010–2011 Liquigas–Doimo
2012–2016 Lampre–ISD
2017–2018 FDJ
2019–2021 Israel Cycling Academy [1] [2] [3]
2022–2023 Cofidis [4]
2024– Movistar Team
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
Trofeo Laigueglia (2015)

Davide Cimolai (born 13 August 1989) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. [5]

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Career

Born in Pordenone, Cimolai has competed as a professional since the 2010 season, competing for the Liquigas–Doimo team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Lampre–ISD squad for the 2012 season. [6] Cimolai made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Vuelta a España, where he was the Lampre–ISD team's main sprinter in a climber-stacked squad; he finished inside the top ten of a stage for the first time, when he placed seventh on the second stage. [7] [8]

Cimolai's first two professional wins came in 2015. He won the Italian Trofeo Laigueglia classic, then, a month later, won the fifth stage of Paris–Nice. [9] [10] In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia. [11]

Major results

2005
2nd Time trial, National Novice Road Championships
2007
1st Giro Ciclistico della Bassa Friulana
1st Gran Premio Ormesani
1st Medaglia d'oro Sportivi Castione
1st Giro della Romagna
1st GP R.E.M. Crema
1st Giro Delle Conche
1st Trofeo Orogildo
National Junior Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
2008
1st Piccolo Giro d'Emilia
1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone
2nd UIV CUP Fiorenzuola
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
2009
1st Coppa San Geo
1st Trofeo Franco Balestra
1st Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
2nd Trofeo Marco Rusconi
2nd Medaglia d'Oro Fiera di Sommacampagna
3rd Medaglia d'Oro Frare De Nardi
3rd Memorial Danilo Furlan
3rd La Popolarissima
4th Giro Nazionale del Valdarno
5th Circuito Internazionale di Caneva
5th GP De Nardi
7th Trofeo Edil C
2010
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
4th Circuito de Getxo
9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2011
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Scratch
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Madison
National Track Championships
1st MaillotItalia.PNG Scratch
1st MaillotItalia.PNG Madison
2nd Team pursuit
6th GP Kranj
2012
9th Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
2013
3rd Trofeo Platja de Muro
4th Grand Prix de Fourmies
5th Brussels Cycling Classic
2014
7th Vattenfall Cyclassics
2015
1st Trofeo Laigueglia
1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
8th Milan–San Remo
2016
1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 2 Tour of Japan
2017
1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
5th La Roue Tourangelle
2018
5th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
6th Paris–Camembert
2019
1st Jersey multicolor.svg Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie
4th Eschborn–Frankfurt
6th Coppa Sabatini
10th Trofeo Laigueglia
2023
9th Paris–Bourges
2024
4th Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969
6th Trofeo Ses Salines-Felanitx

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ——————— 130 118 127 135 DNF 134
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France — 137 163 155 168 152 ——————
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 163 ———————— DNF — 146
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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