Personal information | |
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Full name | Leonardo Bertagnolli |
Born | Trento, Italy | 8 January 1978
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
2002–2004 | Saeco–Longoni Sport |
2005–2006 | Cofidis |
2007–2008 | Liquigas |
2009 | Amica Chips–Knauf |
2009–2010 | Diquigiovanni–Androni |
2011–2012 | Lampre–ISD |
Leonardo Bertagnolli (born 8 January 1978 in Trento) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 2002 and 2012.
Bertagnolli turned professional in 2002 with Saeco–Longoni Sport.
He signed for Amica Chips–Knauf, a new team in the 2009 season, though he switched teams to Diquigiovanni–Androni prior to the start of the Giro d'Italia. [1]
Bertagnolli announced his retirement from the sport after competing in the Italian National Championships in June 2012. [2] It later emerged that the Union Cycliste Internationale had launched disciplinary proceedings into Bertagnolli, in the light of an alleged anti-doping violation via his biological passport, [3] [4] and he was given a sanction of 2 years and ten months as well as disqualified from results between 1 January 2003 to 18 May 2011. [5]
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