Stefano Zanini

Stefano Zanini
Personal information
Full name	Stefano Zanini
Nickname	Maciste
Born	23 January 1969 (age 55); Varese, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Directeur sportif
Professional teams
1991–1994	Italbonifica-Navigare
1995–1996	Gewiss–Ballan
1997–2002	Mapei-GB
2003	Saeco
2004–2005	Quick-Step–Davitamon
2006	Liquigas
2007	Predictor–Lotto
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2000) Giro d'Italia Intergiro classification (2005) 2 individual stages (1994, 2001) One-day races and Classics Amstel Gold Race (1996) Milano–Torino (1995)

Stefano Zanini (born 23 January 1969 in Varese, Lombardy) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, the leadout man for Liquigas-Bianchi in 2006, after riding for Mapei, Saeco, and Quick-Step.

His palmares include the Milano–Torino of 1995, Amstel Gold Race in 1996, one stage of the 2000 Tour de France and two stages at the Giro d'Italia (1994 and 2001).

He retired at the end of 2007 and took up the role of directeur sportif with the Silence-Lotto team. He is currently a directeur sportif with Astana Pro Team.

His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004.^[1]

Major results

1987

1st

Overall Giro della Lunigiana

1989

2nd Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia

1st Coppa Collecchio

1990

5th Gran Premio della Liberazione

1992

1st Coppa Sabatini

1st Stage 5 Giro di Puglia

1st Stage 7 Volta a Portugal

2nd Giro dell'Etna

5th Giro di Campania

1993

5th Coppa Sabatini

5th Trofeo Melinda

1994

1st Giro dell'Etna

1st Stage 22 Giro d'Italia

2nd Nice–Alassio

3rd Tre Valli Varesine

4th Milan–San Remo

6th Giro del Piemonte

10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 5

1995

1st Milano–Torino

1st Coppa Bernocchi

1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico

2nd Giro del Piemonte

2nd Trofeo Laigueglia

2nd Nice–Alassio

2nd Japan Cup

3rd Milan–San Remo

5th Giro di Lombardia

9th Rund um den Henninger-Turm

1996

1st Amstel Gold Race

1st Stage 3 Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stage 5a Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme

2nd Milano–Torino

4th Paris–Roubaix

5th Milan–San Remo

5th Giro dell'Etna

5th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

Giro d'Italia

Held

after Stage 3

Held

after Stages 2 & 3

1997

1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stages 3 & 5a

2nd Coppa Bernocchi

8th Milano–Torino

1998

1st Paris–Brussels

1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

1st Stage 3a Three Days of De Panne

2nd Tour of Flanders

4th Milan–San Remo

4th Paris–Tours

8th Breitling Grand Prix (with Daniele Nardello)

10th Coppa Bernocchi

1999

1st Stage 5a Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

2000

1st Stage 21 Tour de France

1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Tour of the Basque Country

5th Paris–Roubaix

10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2001

1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stage 2 Giro Riviera Ligure Ponente

1st Stage 1 Tour of Slovenia

5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

8th Giro della Provincia di Siracusa

2002

2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne

1st

Points classification

1st Stage 1

2003: 1st US Pro Championship; 5th Firenze–Pistoia; 7th Paris–Tours; 8th Giro del Piemonte; 9th HEW Cyclassics
2004: 1st Stage 1 Tour of Britain; 5th Coppa Bernocchi
2005: 1st Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Giro d'Italia	104	102	—	48	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	93	—	—	—	111	—	134
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	73	—	81	DNF	—	DNF	126	DNF	—	—
/ Vuelta a España	—	—	91	—	DNF	64	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—