Diego Rosa

Diego Rosa (born March 27, 1989 in Corneliano d'Alba ) is an Italian mountain bike and road cyclist .

Career

Diego Rosa finished eighth in the U23 cross country competition at the 2011 Mountain Bike World Championship in Champéry . On the road, he won a stage and the overall classification at the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia in 2012 . He was also successful in the one-day race Bologna-Raticosa.

In 2013 Rosa became a professional with the Italian cycling team Androni Giocattoli . In the Mediterranean Tour he won the junior ranking and in his first World Tour race Milan-Sanremo he made it into the breakaway group of the day and finished the classic as 122nd. At the Giro d'Italia 2013 he contested his first big tour . At the end of the day he finished 23rd and was fifth in the junior ranking.

Rosa was one of Fabio Aru's helpers in his Vuelta a España victory in 2015 . His greatest individual success up to that point came shortly afterwards with the classic Milan-Turin , which he won after an attack on the last stretch of the target ascent.