Daniele Bennati

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Daniele Bennati Road cycling
Daniele Bennati at Paris-Roubaix 2012
Daniele Bennati at Paris-Roubaix 2012
To person
Nickname Benna
Date of birth September 24, 1980
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
height 1.84 m
Racing weight 73 kg
End of career 2019
doping
2005 - warning Betamethasone
Most important successes
two stages Tour de France
six stages of the Vuelta a España
three stages of the Giro d'Italia
Last updated: November 21, 2019

Daniele Bennati (born September 24, 1980 in Arezzo ) is a former Italian cyclist .

Athletic career

After Bennati won a stage in the U23 stage race Giro delle Regioni in 2001, he switched to the Italian cycling team Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo in 2002 and won his first international races in the elite category that year with stages of the Tour of Austria and the Regio Tour .

In the years that followed, Bennati developed into a successful sprinter, winning in particular eleven stages of the “Grand Tours” and also winning the points at the Vuelta a España 2007 and the Giro d'Italia 2008 . In the second half of his career, he increasingly provided helper services , particularly in positioning the team captains. With the Tinkoff-Saxo team , he took on the role of the capitaine de la route , i.e. the driver who leads the team in the race in the interests of the winning drivers - at Tikoff especially Alberto Contador . He took on the same role from the 2017 season on the Movistar Team for Nairo Quintana .

In April 2019, Bennati fell and suffered a vertebral fracture, which resulted in his being unable to participate in racing due to back pain. At the end of the year, he announced the end of his racing career, during which he won a total of 53 international competitions, including 22 at the UCI ProTour and UCI WorldTour level . He competed in 25 Grand Tours and took part in 29 cycling monuments .

doping

In 2005 Bennati was tested positive for the doping agent betamethasone at the classic Gent-Wevelgem and was warned.

successes

Bennati at the Tour de France 2018

2001

2002

2003

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009
2010
2011
2012
2015
2016

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - DNF DNF - - - 70 - - - DNF DNF 96 - - DNF - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - DNF 74 - 132 - - - - - DNF - 104 104 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF - - - - 63 DNF 84 83 111 144 - 108 131 107 - 133 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Daniele Bennati  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cyclingnews.com of September 14, 2012: Bennati joins Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank
  2. ↑ zeit.de from July 8, 2014: Professional cyclists look forward to the fifth stage of the tour with respect and anticipation
  3. ↑ Bennati ready to work for Sagan and Contador in 2015. cyclingnews.com, December 30, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Stephen Farrand: Back pain forces Daniele Bennati to retire at 39. In: cyclingnews.com. November 18, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Meutgens : Doping im Radsport , Bielefeld 2007, p. 289. ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6
personal data
SURNAME Bennati, Daniele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Arezzo