Marco Velo

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Marco Velo
Marco Velo - Tour de Romandie 2010, Stage 3.jpg
Velo at the 2010 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full nameMarco Velo
Born (1974-03-09) 9 March 1974 (age 51)
Brescia, Italy
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type Time trialist
Professional teams
1996–1997 Brescialat
1998–2001 Mercatone Uno–Bianchi
2002–2005 Fassa Bortolo
2006–2008 Team Milram
2009–2010 Quick-Step
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships
(1998, 1999, 2000)

Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.

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Professional career

Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, was seen as a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. From 2002, Velo rode as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team, but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team, but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006. [1] [2] [3] For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team. [4]

Major results

Source: [5]

1997
1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino
7th Overall Critérium International
8th Tour du Haut Var
1998
1st Jersey italianflag.svg Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
1st Stage 4b (ITT)
1st Firenze–Pistoia
4th Giro del Piemonte
6th Grand Prix des Nations
7th Trofeo Pantalica
1999
1st Jersey italianflag.svg Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Gran Premio de Llodio
1st Firenze–Pistoia
2nd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato
2nd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa
5th GP Miguel Induráin
5th Trofeo Melinda
6th Japan Cup
7th La Flèche Wallonne
7th Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta
8th Giro di Lombardia
9th Coppa Placci
10th Amstel Gold Race
2000
1st Jersey italianflag.svg Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Memorial Cecchi Gori
6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
9th Coppa Bernocchi
2001
1st Jersey italianflag.svg Time trial, National Road Championships [a]
2002
10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Serhiy Honchar)
2005
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
3rd Giro di Toscana
6th Coppa Bernocchi
7th Trofeo Luis Puig
9th Giro della Provincia di Lucca
2006
1st Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi)

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 81 30 20 DNF DNF 11 — 21 100 103 —— 87 — 108
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France ———— 39 — 54 DNF DNF — 97 — 42 ——
Jersey yellow.svg/Jersey gold.svg Vuelta a España —————— 57 — 114 DNF 118 117 — 93 —
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Notes

  1. ↑ Disqualified due to a doping infraction.

References


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