Alessandro Petacchi
Alessandro Petacchi 2015 | |
To person | |
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Nickname | Ale jet |
Date of birth | 3rd January 1974 (age 46) |
nation | Italy |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | sprinter |
End of career | 2015 |
doping | |
2007 | Salbutamol |
Team (s) | |
1996–1999 2000–2005 2006–2008 2008–2009 2010– April 2013 August 2013–2014 2015 |
Scrigno-Blue Storm Fassa Bortolo Team Milram L.PR Brakes Lampre Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Southeast |
Most important successes | |
Milan – Sanremo |
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Last updated: May 15, 2019 |
Alessandro Petacchi (born January 3, 1974 in La Spezia ) is a former Italian cyclist .
The most important successes of the successful sprinter in road racing include winning the green jersey of the Tour de France 2010 , a total of 48 stage victories in three major tours , including six in the Tour de France , 22 in the Giro d'Italia plus five retrospectively withdrawn and 20 in the event the Vuelta a España and the victory at Milan – San Remo in 2005.
Sporty profile and development
Petacchi turned pro in 1996. After he had sprint successes in smaller bike races in the early years of his career , he experienced his breakthrough in 2003: After numerous successes in the spring, he was only the third driver ever - after Miguel Poblet in 1956 and Pierino Baffi in 1958 - to win all three “Grand Tours ”win stages within a year. First he achieved six stage wins at the Giro d'Italia . He then won four times at the Tour de France and six times at the Vuelta a España .
He continued his series of successes in major country tours over the next few years: by 2011 he had won a total of 22 stages in the Giro d'Italia , six in the Tour de France and 20 in the Vuelta a España . Particularly noteworthy are his nine stage victories at the Giro d'Italia 2004 , with which he set a record for the post-war period. Petacchi was also able to win the points classification of these races once : 2004 the Maglia ciclamino des Giro, 2005 at the Vuelta and 2010 at the Tour.
Petacchi's successes in the years 2000 to 2005 were based not least on the strategy of his Fassa Bortolo team to put together a sprint train that was tailor-made for Petacchi with several, permanently positioned drivers.
Petacchi was also successful in the classics : he won the Milan – Sanremo sprint in 2005, ahead of Danilo Hondo and Paris-Tours in 2007 , supported by his team-mate Erik Zabel .
In April 2013 he announced his immediate end to his career and terminated his contract with the Lampre-Merida team , but continued his career from August 1, 2013 with the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team , where he was a driver in the sprint train for Mark Cavendish was committed. He stayed there until the end of the 2014 season and eventually moved to Team Southeast .
In June 2015, at the age of 41, Petacchi announced the end of his career. The reason he gave was that in view of a viral disease that would not heal, he saw no point in continuing.
Doping ban and suspected doping
After the Giro d'Italia 2007 it became known that Alessandro Petacchi tested positive for salbutamol during the eleventh stage . Although he was able to present an exemption that allowed him to take this substance up to a certain limit value, the controls found that this value was exceeded. After the Italian Olympic Committee opened an investigation into Petacchi and scheduled a hearing, Petacchi was suspended from his team Milram in late June. After the acquittal by the Italian Cycling Federation, the Italian Olympic Committee appealed to the CAS .
On May 5, 2008, the CAS banned him retrospectively for ten months to August 31, 2008 after the two-month investigation period during which he had not driven had been offset against the annual ban that was actually to be imposed. In addition, his Giro successes from 2007 (five stage wins and points evaluation) and all results since November 1, 2007 have been canceled. The court did not assume that Petacchi was intent on doping fraud, but instead pronounced the ban due to the disregard of the UCI regulations and the special permission to use salbutamol. As a result, the contract between Alessandro Petacchi and the Milram team was terminated on May 16, 2008 by “mutual agreement”.
In July 2010, Petacchi came under suspicion of doping again. The public prosecutor in Padua accused him of using the blood doping agent perfluorocarbon .
As part of the investigation of the "Operation Aderlass" around the German sports doctor Mark Schmidt , Petacchi came under suspicion again in May 2019 of having violated anti-doping regulations. In August 2019 he was banned from the World Cycling Federation (UCI) for two years.
Victories (excerpt)
- 1998
- one stage Tour de Langkawi
- 2000
- two stages tour of Luxembourg
- two stages Route du Sud
- two stages Vuelta a España
- 2001
- one stage International Week Coppi-Bartali
- two stages Lombard week
- a stage in Euskal Bizikleta
- one stage tour of Poland
- 2002
- two stages and points classification Paris – Nice
- three stages International Week Coppi-Bartali
- one stage tour of the Netherlands
- a stage Vuelta a España
- 2003
- Trofeo Luis Puig
- a stage Paris – Nice
- three stages Aragon tour
- six stages of the Giro d'Italia
- four stages of the Tour de France
- Right through Gendringen
- two stages tour of the Netherlands
- five stages of the Vuelta a España
- 2004
- three stages Tirreno – Adriatico
- two stages and points scoring Aragon tour
- nine stages and points classification Giro d'Italia
- one stage tour of the Netherlands
- four stages of the Vuelta a España
- 2005
- Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi
- two stages tour of Andalusia
- Trofeo Luis Puig
- three stages Tirreno – Adriatico
- Milan – Sanremo
- two stages Aragon tour
- two stages Tour de Romandie
- four stages and points classification Giro d'Italia
- five stages and points scoring Vuelta a España
- 2006
- Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi
- two stages and points evaluation Tour of Andalusia
- Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- a stage and points scoring Tirreno – Adriatico
- Overall ranking and five stages of the Lower Saxony tour
- 2007
- Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi
- Overall ranking and three stages of the Algarve tour
- Overall ranking and three stages of the Lower Saxony tour
- two stages Vuelta a España
- Paris Tours
- 2008
- 2009
- Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi
- one stage Giro di Sardegna
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- two stages and team time trial Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- Scheldeprijs
- Giro di Toscana
- two stages of the Giro d'Italia
- one stage Delta Tour Zeeland
- 2010
- two stages Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi
- one stage Giro di Sardegna
- one stage Tour de Suisse
- two stages and points classification Tour de France
- a stage Vuelta a España
- 2011
- a stage Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
- a stage and points scoring Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- 2012
- three stages Bavaria tour
- 2014
Web links
- Alessandro Petacchi in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Alessandro Petacchi in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b rad-net.de of May 16, 2008: Petacchi from Milram-Team dismissed without notice , accessed on May 18, 2008
- ↑ Signore Baffi sends his regards. In: derStandard.at , September 30, 2003.
- ↑ mz-web.de of May 24, 2004: Giro d'Italia: Alessandro Petacchi sets a record
- ↑ Petacchi portrait on strassenradsport.com ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 1, 2013)
- ↑ radsport-news.com from March 19, 2005: Petacchi wins Milan – San Remo, Hondo is annoyed with 2nd place
- ↑ radsport-news.com from October 15, 2007: Perfect sprint thanks to Zabel's help
- ↑ Sprinter quits at the age of 39. orf.at, April 23, 2013, accessed April 23, 2013 .
- ↑ cyclingnews.com of July 13, 2013: Petacchi to start with Omega Pharma-Quickstep August 1
- ↑ Heike Oberfeuchtner: End of career: Alessandro Petacchi is now finally turning his back on professional cycling. live-radsport.ch, June 13, 2015, accessed on June 13, 2015 .
- ↑ rad-net.de: Three professional cyclists after Giro under suspicion of doping , accessed on May 18, 2008
- ↑ Froome is fighting for his reputation and his career (December 13, 2017)
- ↑ rad-net.de of June 27, 2007: Petacchi denies doping with asthma drugs
- ↑ rad-net.de of June 28, 2007: Petacchi temporarily suspended by the Milram team
- ↑ rad-net.de of July 24, 2007: Petacchi acquitted of suspected doping
- ↑ rad-net.de of July 26, 2007: Objection to Petacchi's doping acquittal , accessed on May 18, 2008
- ↑ rad-net.de of May 18, 2008: Milram after Petacchi: New orientation
- ↑ rad-net.de from May 6, 2008: Doping: CAS bans Petacchi until August , accessed on May 18, 2008
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de of July 21, 2010: Poisonous mail for Petacchi
- ↑ Doping: Four professional cyclists under suspicion May 15, 2019
- ↑ kurier.at of August 24, 2019: "Operation Aderlass": Two years ban for ex-bike star Petacchi
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Petacchi, Alessandro |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd January 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | La Spezia , Italy |