Davide Villella

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Davide Villella
Leuven - Brabantse Pijl, 15 april 2015, vertrek (B174).JPG
Villella at the 2015 Brabantse Pijl
Personal information
Full nameDavide Villella
Born (1991-06-27) 27 June 1991 (age 31)
Magenta, Italy
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur teams
2010–2013 De Nardi–Colpack–Bergamasca
2013 Cannondale (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2014 Cannondale
2015–2017 Cannondale–Garmin [1] [2]
2018–2019 Astana [3] [4]
2020–2021 Movistar Team [5] [6]
2022 Cofidis [7]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
Mountains classification (2017)

One-day races and Classics

Japan Cup (2016)

Davide Villella (born 27 June 1991) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2014 to 2022. [2]

Contents

Biography

Born on 27 June 1991, in Magenta, Lombardy, Villella resides in Sant'Omobono Terme, Lombardy, Italy. [2] [8]

Villella signed with Cannondale, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2014 season. [9] [10] He started the 2014 Giro d'Italia, but withdrew on Stage 6. [11] [12] Villella signed with Cannondale–Garmin, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2015 season. [13] [14] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. [15]

Major results

2012
2nd Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
3rd Gran Premio della Liberazione
3rd Trofeo Alcide Degasperi
6th Trofeo Edil C
7th Ruota d'Oro
8th Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
1st Points classification
1st Stages 4 & 5
9th Trofeo Franco Balestra
2013
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stages 2 & 4
1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2nd Trofeo Edil C
2nd Gran Premio di Poggiana
3rd Coppa Sabatini
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
4th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
6th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
6th Giro del Belvedere
8th Coppa della Pace
10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2014
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Tour of the Basque Country
4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
6th Coppa Sabatini
6th Trofeo Laigueglia
2015
10th Milano–Torino
2016
1st Japan Cup
5th Giro di Lombardia
9th Giro dell'Emilia
10th Overall Critérium International
10th Overall Tour de Pologne
2017
1st Jersey blue dotted.png Mountains classification, Vuelta a España
5th Tre Valli Varesine
2018
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Almaty
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1
2019
2nd Overall CRO Race
5th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
7th Gran Piemonte
9th Overall Tour of Guangxi
2020
3rd Pollença–Andratx
2021
4th Trofeo Matteotti
5th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Italiana
5th Giro della Toscana
7th Memorial Marco Pantani

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201420152016201720182019202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia DNF 78 — 72 70 60 40 55 63
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France Has not contested during his career
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España — 94 56 97 48 ——— 53
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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