Alessandro Petacchi
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| Full name | Alessandro Petacchi | ||
| Nickname | Ale-Jet | ||
| Born | 3 January 1974 La Spezia, Italy |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 73 kg (160 lb; 11.5 st) | ||
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| Current team | Lampre-ISD | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||
| Professional team(s) | |||
| 1996–1999 2000–2005 2006–2008 2008–2009 2010– |
Scrigno-Blue Storm Fassa Bortolo Team Milram LPR Brakes-Ballan Lampre-Farnese Vini |
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| Infobox last updated on 17 January 2012 |
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Alessandro Petacchi (born 3 January 1974 in La Spezia, Liguria) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for Lampre-ISD.
A specialist sprinter, Petacchi has won 51 grand tour stages with wins of the points jersey in the Giro d'Italia in 2004, the Vuelta a España in 2005 and the Tour de France in 2010.
In 2007 Alessandro was banned from cycling and had his results achieved disqualified for doping. The court later said that he had not cheated on purpose but had not taken enough care when consuming his legal asthma drug.[1]
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[edit] Career
Petacchi turned professional in 1996, and rode for a number of teams. In 2006 he moved to Team Milram with sprinter Erik Zabel, following the disbanding of Fassa Bortolo. His explosive speed won him stages in all three of the Grand Tours. In 2004 he won a record nine stages at the Giro d'Italia, which resulted in winning the maglia ciclamino for topping the points classification. He won his first classic in 2005, Milan – San Remo.
He withdrew from the 2006 Giro d'Italia after crashing during the third stage. He had finished the stage with a broken kneecap.[2] In 2007, he won five stages in the Giro d'Italia, bringing his tally of ProTour victories to 21 and making him the rider with most UCI ProTour victories. In 2010, he won the first and fourth stages of the Tour de France. Before going on to complete the grand slam as he won the green sprinters jersey to complete the feat at all the grand tours. In so doing he was the 1st person to complete the feat since 1999 and the first Italian to win the points classification in the Tour de France since 1968.[3]
[edit] Doping allegations
After a non-negative result for the asthma drug salbutamol, which Petacchi had clearance to use, he was placed on non-active status and missed the 2007 Tour de France.[4] Petacchi was absolved when the Italian Cycling Federation ruled that overuse of Salbutamol was human error.[5]
On 6 May 2008, the Court of Arbitration for Sport banned Petacchi until the end of August, applied retroactively from November. It said all competitive results obtained during the 2007 Giro d'Italia shall be disqualified with all of the resulting consequences including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes. Results after 31 October 2007 and during his ban were disqualified including five Giro d'Italia stage wins. The court said Petacchi had not intended to cheat and that it was likely that he had inadvertently consumed too much medication, but he had not exercised "utmost caution."[6] The case was considered controversial,[7] as it kept Petacchi from starting the Tour de France as he had planned[8] and for the court ruling that he should be suspended despite acknowledging that he had not cheated. Petacchi maintained that he had done no wrong.[9]
As a result of this, on 16 May 2008, Petacchi was fired by Team Milram.[10] After his suspension he joined LPR Brakes-Ballan.
[edit] LPR Brakes and beyond
After winning a few minor races in 2008 Petacchi, started 2009 strongly by winning the Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen semi-classic race. He was selected to ride the Giro d'Italia and won the second and third stages, wearing the pink jersey on stage 3 and the cyclamen jersey on stages 2 through 5.[11]
Petacchi signed with Lampre-Farnese Vini for the 2010 season.[12]
[edit] Palmares
- 1998
- 1 stage Tour de Langkawi
- 1999
- King of the Mountains, Tour de Langkawi[13]
- 2000
- Stages 8 & 12, Vuelta a España
- 2 stages & GC Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 2 stages Tour de Luxembourg
- 2 stages Route du Sud
- 1 stage Regio-Tour
- 2001
- 2 stages Settimana Lombarda
- 1 stage Euskal Bizikleta
- 1 stage Tour of Poland
- 1 stage Settimana Coppi & Bartali
- 2002
- Stage 12, Vuelta a España
- Stage 1 & 5, Paris–Nice
- 3 stages Vuelta Valenciana
- 3 stages Settimana Coppi & Bartali
- 1 stage Tour Méditerranéen
- 1 stage Regio-Tour
- 1 stage Ronde van Nederland
- 2003
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 2, 3, 5 & 6
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stages 1, 5, 6, 13, 16 & 17
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 3, 5, 12, 14 & 21
- Stage 1, Paris–Nice
- 3 stages Vuelta a Aragón
- 2 stages Ronde van Nederland
- 1 stage Vuelta Valenciana
- Trofeo Luis Puig
- 2004
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner Maglia ciclamino (Points classification)
- Winner Most Combative classification
- Winner Azzurri d'Italia classification
- Winner stages 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 21
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 2, 4, 7 and 13
- Stages 1, 2 & 7, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2 stages Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 2 stages Vuelta a Aragón
- 1 stage Ronde van Nederland
- 2005
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stages 10, 13, 16 and 21
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner Points Classification
- Winner stages 3, 4, 8, 12 and 21
- 1st 2005 Milan – San Remo
- Stages 1, 6 & 7 Tirreno–Adriatico
- Stages 1 & 2 Tour de Romandie
- 3 stages & GC Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- GP Costa Degli Etruschi
- Trofeo Luis Puig
- 2 stages Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2 stages Vuelta a Aragón
- 2006
- Stage 7 & Points Classification Tirreno–Adriatico
- GP Costa Degli Etruschi
- Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 5 stages & GC Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
- 2 stages Ruta del Sol
- 2 stages Vuelta Valenciana
- 2007
- GP Costa Degli Etruschi
- 3 stages & GC Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
- 3 stages & GC Volta ao Algarve
- 1 stage Vuelta Valenciana
- 1 stage Regio-Tour
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 11, 12
- Paris–Tours
- 2008
- Tour of Britain:
- Winner stages 1, 6, 8
- Memorial Viviana Manservisi
- GP Beghelli
- 2009
- Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
- 1st, Stage 5, Giro di Sardegna
- 1st, Stage 2, Tirreno–Adriatico
- Settimana Ciclista Lombarda:
- 1st, Stage 1 Team Time Trial
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 4
- Grote Scheldeprijs
- Giro di Toscana
- Giro d'Italia:
- 1st, Stages 2, 3
- 1st, Stage 1, Delta Tour Zeeland
- 2010
- Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 1st, stage 2, 4
- 1st, Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
- Tirreno–Adriatico:
- 2nd Stage 3
- 2nd Stage 7
- 3rd Milan – San Remo
- Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 4
- Tour de France
- 1st
Points Classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 7
- 2011
- Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 2
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 4
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 2
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Innocently Guilty – the Petacchi case". CyclingNews.com. 2008-05-09. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=features/2008/petacchi_suspension_may08. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ^ "Petacchi upbeat after operation". BBC. 2006-05-10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/4759847.stm. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ "Contador seals third Tour victory". BBC News. 2010-07-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8852774.stm.
- ^ "Sidelined Petacchi facing 12 month suspension". CyclingNews.com. 2007-07-05. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jul07/jul05news. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
- ^ "Petacchi absolved of doping blame". Eurosport.com. 2007-07-24. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24072007/58/giro-d-italia-petacchi-absolved-doping-blame.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24.[dead link]
- ^ "Alessandro Petacchi suspended until 31 August 2008". tas-cas.org. 2008-05-06. http://www.tas-cas.org/en/infogenerales.asp/4-3-690-1092-4-1-1/5-0-1092-15-1-1/. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
- ^ Andrew Canning (2008-03-26). "Alessandro Petacchi: Rider Profile". VeloNews. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/322550/alessandro-petacchi-rider-profile.html. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ^ Antonio J. Salmerón (2007-06-27). "Petacchi heard by CONI over Salbutamol use". Cycling News. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-heard-by-coni-over-salbutamol-use. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ^ Greg Johnson (2008-05-21). "Petacchi: I remain a winner". Cycling News. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/322550/alessandro-petacchi-rider-profile.html. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ^ "Alessandro Petacchi leaves Milram after drug ruling by CAS". International Herald Tribune. 2008-05-16. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/16/sports/EU-SPT-CYC-Petacchi-Milram.php/. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ Silenzio! Oh Ale-Jet, how good can you get?
- ^ Gregor Brown (2009-08-24). "Petacchi signs with Lampre-NGC". Cycling News. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-signs-with-lampre-ngc. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-counts-wins-lost-in-doping-suspension
[edit] External links
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- Alessandro Petacchi profile at Cycling Archives
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| Preceded by Óscar Freire |
Winner of Milan – San Remo 2005 |
Succeeded by Filippo Pozzato |
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