Personal information | |
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Full name | Marco Marcato |
Born | San Donà di Piave, Italy | 11 February 1984
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type |
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Professional teams | |
2005–2006 | Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi |
2007 | Team LPR |
2008 | Cycle Collstrop |
2009–2013 | Vacansoleil |
2014 | Cannondale [1] |
2015–2016 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert [2] |
2017–2021 | UAE Abu Dhabi [3] [4] |
Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics
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Marco Marcato (born 11 February 1984) is an Italian former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [5]
Born in San Donà di Piave, Veneto, Marcato won the Tour de Vendée in 2011, [6] and Paris–Tours in 2012: in the latter of these he took the Ruban Jaune as the holder of the record for the fastest average speed in a race of over 200 kilometres (120 miles), at the time. [7]
For the 2014 season, Marcato joined Cannondale, after his previous team – Vacansoleil–DCM [8] – folded at the end of the 2013 season. [1] Subsequently, Wanty–Groupe Gobert signed Marcato on a two-year contract from 2015, reuniting him with former Vacansoleil boss Hilaire Vanderschueren, and sharing leadership of the team in the Flemish classics with former Vacansoleil team-mate Björn Leukemans. [2] In September 2016 it was announced that Marcato would join UAE Abu Dhabi for the 2017 season. [9] He retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season. [10]
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 75 | — | — | — | 113 | 69 | 99 | — |
Tour de France | — | — | 87 | 67 | — | 80 | — | — | 96 | 126 | — | 111 |
Vuelta a España | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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