Davide Formolo

Davide Formolo
	Davide Formolo (2015)
To person
Date of birth	October 25, 1992
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	UAE Team Emirates
function	driver
Most important successes
	a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2015 a stage tour of Catalonia 2019
	Last updated: August 9, 2020

Davide Formolo (born October 25, 1992 in Marano di Valpolicella ) is an Italian cyclist .

Career

Davide Formolo grew up in San Rocco, a district of his birthplace Marano di Valpolicella with 200 inhabitants. Marano di Valpolicella is the venue for the famous U23 one-day race Gran Premio Palio del Recioto . He bought his first racing bike in the bicycle shop of former professional cyclist Luciano Conati .

After Formolo won the overall ranking of the Giro Ciclistico Pesche Nettarine di Romagna , a stage race in the calendar of the Italian Cycling Federation, in 2012 and 2013, second in the Italian U23 championship in 2012 and second in the international U23 round trip Giro della Valle d ' Aosta , he joined the Italian UCI WorldTeam Cannondale in 2014 . At the Italian road championships on the mountainous course of the Trofeo Melinda , he finished second in the sprint behind the eventual winner of the 2014 Tour de France , Vincenzo Nibali .

When his Cannondale team merged with the US team Cannondale-Garmin under Jonathan Vaughters , he became part of this team. Vaughters expressed the expectation that Formolo would win the Giro d'Italia in the future . He achieved his first international success by winning the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia 2015 when he was able to break away from a breakaway group that had formed in the Ligurian mountains and 22 seconds ahead of the chasing group of the giro favorites in La Spezia reached. He then took part in the Tour of Poland and came in ninth overall.

In the 2016 season, Formolo competed in the Giro d'Italia again , which he finished in 31st place like in the previous year. In the overall ranking of the Tour of Poland in 2016 , he finished fourth. In August, Davide Formolo started for the first time as a helper for Andrew Talansky , who would later be fifth overall, at the Vuelta a España and finished in ninth place at the end of the tour.

At the Giro d'Italia 2017 and 2018 he was tenth overall. In 2019 he won the final stage of the Tour of Catalonia and finished second at Liège – Bastogne – Liège , after being distanced from his fellow runaway Jakob Fuglsang on the last climb .