Marco Pinotti
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 Pinotti at the 2012 Giro d'Italia. |
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| Full name | Marco Pinotti | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | L'Ingegnere (The Engineer) | ||||||||||||
| Born | 25 February 1976 Osio Sotto, Lombardy, Italy |
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| Current team | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time Trialist | ||||||||||||
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| 1998 | Polti (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||
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| 1999–2004 2005–2006 2007–2011 2012– |
Lampre-Daikin Saunier Duval-Prodir T-Mobile Team BMC Racing Team |
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Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team.[1] Pinotti is a specialist of individual time trial, in which he is a five-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010).
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Career [edit]
As an amateur he won 28 races and he turned professional in 1999 with the Lampre-Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and he won the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.
In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.
The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.
Pinotti joined the then newly-formed Spanish team Saunier Duval-Prodir team in 2005. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials[2] but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey.[3] Pinotti retained the title in 2008.
At the Giro d'Italia, Pinotti placed second in stage six to Spoleto in 2007 and took over the leader's pink jersey. He held it for four stages. In 2008, he won the final stage, a time trial. He did it again in 2012. In 2009 and 2011, he help his teams win the team time trial. The result in 2011 helped him take over the pink jersey for one day.
In 2008, Pinotti joined team Highroad, which became Columbia HighRoad in 2009 and HTC-Columbia in 2010.
Pinotti joined the BMC Racing Team for 2012 following the disbanding of the HTC-Highroad team.[1] At the end of the year, he released a book, Il Mestiere Del Ciclista Una Vita In Bicicletta.
Palmares [edit]
- 2003
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
- 2005
- 1st
National Time Trial Champion - 2007
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st
Overall Tour of Ireland - 1st Stage 21 Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2009
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 3 TTT Tour de Romandie
- 2010
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 7th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 2011
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia Wore Pink Jersey on Stage 2
- 4th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2012
- 1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 6th Overall Tour of Austria
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro del Trentino
- 1st
Sprints classification Tour of the Basque Country - 5th Olympic Time Trial
Notes and references [edit]
- ^ a b "BMC signs Pinotti and Van Garderen". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 1 September 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Ascani take TT tricolore". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
- ^ "Ascani faces suspension for EPO". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
External links [edit]
Media related to Marco Pinotti at Wikimedia Commons
- Fan website
- Marco Pinotti profile at Cycling Archives
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