Team Polti VisitMalta

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Team Polti VisitMalta
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The team in 2021
Team information
UCI codePTV
RegisteredSpain (2018–2020)
Italy (2021–)
Founded2018 (2018)
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Continental (2018–2020)
UCI ProTeam (2021–)
Bicycles Aurum bikes
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager
Team manager(s)
Team name history
2018
2019
2020
2021–2023
2024
2025–
Polartec–Kometa (PLK)
Kometa Cycling Team (KMT)
Kometa Xstra Cycling Team (KTX)
Eolo–Kometa (EOK)
Polti–Kometa (PTK)
Polti VisitMalta (PTV)

Team Polti VisitMalta is an Italian-registered, Spanish-based UCI ProTeam cycling team, that was founded in 2018. [2] The team was promoted from the UCI Continental level in 2021. [3]

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Based in Pinto, Spain, and sponsored by the Fundación Contador headed by Alberto Contador, it was launched in 2018 as a UCI Continental youth formation supporting the Trek-Segafredo team. [4] In 2021, under the patronage of the new sponsor Eolo SpA  [ it ], it acquired the UCI ProTeam license, and this season it was invited for the first time to the Giro d'Italia. [5]

The team rides Aurum Magma bikes equipped with full ENVE components and SRAM groupset. [6]

A team car Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team, Giro d'Italia 2021.jpg
A team car

Team roster

As of 11 January 2025. [7]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Italy.svg  Davide Bais  (ITA) (1998-04-02) 2 April 1998 (age 26)
Flag of Italy.svg  Mattia Bais  (ITA) (1996-10-19) 19 October 1996 (age 28)
Flag of Malta.svg  Aidan Buttigieg  (MLT) (1997-07-18) 18 July 1997 (age 27)
Flag of Italy.svg  Ludovico Crescioli  (ITA) (2003-10-20) 20 October 2003 (age 21)
Flag of Italy.svg  Davide De Cassan  (ITA) (2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 23)
Flag of Spain.svg  Pablo García  (ESP) (2001-01-16) 16 January 2001 (age 23)
Flag of Colombia.svg  Germán Darío Gómez  (COL) (2001-03-08) 8 March 2001 (age 23)
Flag of Italy.svg  Giovanni Lonardi  (ITA) (1996-11-09) 9 November 1996 (age 28)
Flag of Italy.svg  Mirco Maestri  (ITA) (1991-10-26) 26 October 1991 (age 33)
Flag of Spain.svg  Álex Martín  (ESP) (2000-01-25) 25 January 2000 (age 24)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Spain.svg  Francisco Muñoz  (ESP) (2001-06-24) 24 June 2001 (age 23)
Flag of Spain.svg  Manuel Peñalver  (ESP) (1998-12-10) 10 December 1998 (age 26)
Flag of Italy.svg  Andrea Pietrobon  (ITA) (1999-03-11) 11 March 1999 (age 25)
Flag of Italy.svg  Davide Piganzoli  (ITA) (2002-07-08) 8 July 2002 (age 22)
Flag of Italy.svg  Gabriele Raccagni  (ITA) (2003-02-05) 5 February 2003 (age 21)
Flag of Spain.svg  Javier Serrano  (ESP) (2001-04-17) 17 April 2001 (age 23)
Flag of Spain.svg  Diego Pablo Sevilla  (ESP) (1996-03-04) 4 March 1996 (age 28)
Flag of Spain.svg  Fernando Tercero  (ESP) (2001-12-28) 28 December 2001 (age 23)
Flag of Italy.svg  Alessandro Tonelli  (ITA) (1992-05-29) 29 May 1992 (age 32)
Flag of Italy.svg  Samuele Zoccarato  (ITA) (1998-01-08) 8 January 1998 (age 27)

Major wins

2018
Stages 1 & 4 Tour of Antalya, Matteo Moschetti
International Rhodes Grand Prix, Matteo Moschetti
Stage 2 International Tour of Rhodes, Matteo Moschetti
Stages 4 & 7 Tour de Normandie, Matteo Moschetti
Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Kevin Inkelaar
Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos, Matteo Moschetti
Stage 2 Tour de Hongrie, Matteo Moschetti
2019
Stage 3 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Michel Ries
Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Juan Pedro López
2020
Stage 1 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, Alejandro Ropero
2021
Stage 14 Giro d'Italia, Lorenzo Fortunato
Jersey blue.svg Overall Adriatica Ionica Race, Lorenzo Fortunato
Stage 2, Lorenzo Fortunato
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Time Trial Championships, Erik Fetter
Stage 4 Tour du Limousin, Erik Fetter
2022
Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969, Giovanni Lonardi
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Time Trial Championships, Erik Fetter
Stage 4 Tour du Limousin, Vincenzo Albanese
2023
Jersey blue.svg Overall Vuelta a Asturias, Lorenzo Fortunato
Stage 2, Lorenzo Fortunato
Stage 7 Giro d'Italia, Davide Bais
Stage 3a Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Samuele Rivi
2024
Jersey pink.svg Overall Tour of Antalya, Davide Piganzoli
Stage 3, Davide Piganzoli
Stage 3 Tour du Rwanda, Jhonatan Restrepo
Stage 3 Presidential Tour of Turkey, Giovanni Lonardi

Supplementary statistics

Grand Tours by highest finishing position
Race2021202220232024
Giro d'Italia 16 15 21 13
Tour de France — — — —
Vuelta a España — — — —
Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position
Race2021202220232024
Tour Down Under NH — —
Paris–Nice — — — —
Tirreno–Adriatico 83 18 26 18
Volta a Catalunya — — — —
Tour of the Basque Country — — — —
Tour de Romandie — — — —
Critérium du Dauphiné — — — —
Tour de Suisse — — — —
Tour de Pologne — — — —
Benelux Tour — NH [8] — —
Monument races by highest finishing position
Monument2021202220232024
Milan–San Remo — 11 58 44
Tour of Flanders — — — —
Paris–Roubaix — — — —
Liège–Bastogne–Liège — — — —
Il Lombardia 15 55 18
Classics by highest finishing position
Classic2021202220232024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — — — —
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne — — — —
Strade Bianche 100 25 75 79
E3 Harelbeke — — — —
Gent–Wevelgem — — — —
Amstel Gold Race — — — —
La Flèche Wallonne — — — —
Clásica de San Sebastián — — — —
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NHNot held

National champions

2021
MaillotHungary.png Hungary Time Trial, Erik Fetter
2022
MaillotHungary.png Hungary Time Trial, Erik Fetter

Notes

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    3. ↑ "EOLO will be the main sponsor of the new project of the Alberto Contador Foundation: EOLO-KOMETA". Kometa Xstra Cycling Team. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
    4. ↑ "Storia | Eolo Kometa Team". 15 November 2020.
    5. ↑ "Wild Card Giro d'Italia 2021".
    6. ↑ "Our AURUM MAGMA, ready for 2023 season". eolokometacyclingteam.com. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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