Dario Cioni

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Dario Cioni Road cycling
Dario Cioni at the Tour de Romandie 2011
Dario Cioni at the Tour de Romandie 2011
To person
Date of birth 2nd December 1974
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Sky ProCycling
Team (s)
2000–2002
2003–2004
2005–2006
2007–2008
2009
2010–2011 		Mapei-Quick Step
Fassa Bortolo
Liquigas
Silence-Lotto
ISD-Neri
Sky ProCycling
Most important successes

Italian champion - time trial 2004
one stage Ruta del Sol 2007

Last updated: December 19, 2011

Dario David Cioni (born December 2, 1974 in Reading , England ) is a former Italian cyclist .

career

Dario Cioni started his career as a mountain biker and became Italian champion several times. Because he did not for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was nominated, he decided to focus on road cycling to concentrate. He first became a professional at Mapei ; However, his breakthrough came with the Fassa Bortolo team , where he finished third in the Tour de Suisse and fourth ( 2005 ) in the Giro d'Italia . In 2004 he became Italian champion in the individual time trial .

From 2005 Cioni drove for the Liquigas-Bianchi team and took part in the Tour de France for the first time. For the 2007 season he signed a contract with Predictor Lotto . Right at the beginning of the new season, he decided on a stage of the Tour of Andalusia for his new employer . In 2009 he won the team time trial of the Settimana Internazionale together with the riders from the ISD Neri team .

Together with Cédric Vasseur , Cionai was the rider's representative in the Council of the International Cycling Federation UCI .

At the end of the 2011 season, Cioni, who last rode for Team Sky , ended his career as a professional cyclist, but stayed with the team as a coach. (Stand 2013)

Placement in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 29 DNF 4th 13 86 33 - 47 17th 76
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 79 - 54 - 56 83 - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 52 - 38 - - - - 145
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Dario Cioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Union Cycliste Internationale: General organization / UCI ProTour Council ( Memento of July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 16, 2009.
  2. ^ The Team. Retrieved December 24, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Cioni, Dario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cioni, Dario David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , England