Salvatore Puccio

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Salvatore Puccio
Salvatore Puccio 2014 (cropped).jpg
Puccio in 2014
Personal information
Full nameSalvatore Puccio
Born (1989-08-31) 31 August 1989 (age 34)
Menfi, Italy
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team Ineos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Rouleur
  • Domestique
Professional team
2012– Team Sky [1] [2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2013)
Vuelta a España
1 TTT stage (2016)

Salvatore Puccio (born 31 August 1989) is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. [3]

Contents

Career

Salvatore Puccio in first (time trial) stage Tour of Slovenia 2015. Sky team - 1st stage Tour of Slovenia 2015.jpg
Salvatore Puccio in first (time trial) stage Tour of Slovenia 2015.

Puccio was born at Menfi, in Sicily. He joined Team Sky ahead of the 2012 season, [4] after a 2011 season which included a solo victory in the under-23 Tour of Flanders race in April. [5] [6]

Puccio made his Grand Tour debut at the 2013 Giro d'Italia. After Team Sky won the team time trial on stage two, Puccio took the race lead and wore the pink jersey on stage three, after being the highest placed Team Sky rider on stage one. [7] Puccio kicked off his season in 2018 with an entry in the Tour Down Under. [8]

Major results

2007
5th Overall Giro della Toscana Junior
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Giro della Lunigiana
2010
5th GP Pretola
5th Gran Premio San Giuseppe
6th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
9th Trofeo Edil C
2011
1st Ronde van Vlaanderen U23
2nd GP Pretola
2nd Giro del Belvedere
2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
4th Overall Giro della Toscana
1st Stage 3
4th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
5th GP Capodarco
2012
6th Trofeo Deià
2013
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
Held Jersey pink.svg after Stage 2
2014
8th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
2015
7th Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Jersey red.svg Points classification [lower-alpha 1]
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 73 98 68 86 64 86 56 94 85 72
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France Has not contested during his career
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España DNF 77 121 78 96 89 98
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Notes

  1. In October 2015, Davide Appollonio was stripped of his race results, following his suspension after a positive doping test for erythropoietin (EPO). As a consequence, Puccio was retroactively promoted one position in the standings. [9]

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