Alberto Bettiol

Alberto Bettiol
	Alberto Bettiol (2019)
To person
Date of birth	October 29, 1993
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
height	1.80 m
Racing weight	69 kg
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI World Tour 2019 Tour of Flanders
	Last updated: April 7, 2019

Alberto Bettiol (born October 29, 1993 in Poggibonsi ) is an Italian racing cyclist .

Career

As a junior rider, Bettiol became European champion in the individual time trial in 2011 and won a stage of the Giro della Lunigiana .

For the 2014 season, Bettiol received a contract with the Italian UCI WorldTeam Cannondale and was one of the riders who was taken over by the US team Cannondale-Garmin the following year .

For this team he contested his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2016 and finished the tour in 86th place. In the subsequent Tour of Poland he was third overall and won the points classification . In the same year he was beaten in the two-man sprint by Oliver Naesen after a breakaway attempt of around 50 kilometers at the Bretagne Classic . He also achieved top WorldTour placements in 2016 at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec as fourth and at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal as seventh and in 2017 as sixth at the Clásica San Sebastián .

After a less successful 2017 with the BMC Racing Team , Bettiol returned to the now EF Education First team and finished fourth in the E3 BinckBank Classic . After a 14-kilometer solo journey, he won the subsequent Tour of Flanders , one of the monuments of cycling .