Domenico Pozzovivo

Domenico Pozzovivo
	Domenico Pozzovivo (2012)
To person
Nickname	Dr. Pozzovivo
Date of birth	November 30, 1982
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
height	165 cm
Racing weight	53 kg
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	driver
Team (s)
2005–2012 ; 2013–2017 ; 2018–2019 ; 2020	Ceramica Panaria-Margres / Colnago-CSF Inox ; Ag2r ; Bahrain-Merida ; NTT Pro Cycling Team
Most important successes
	UCI WorldTour 2012 a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2015 a stage tour of Catalonia 2017 a stage of the Tour de Suisse
	Last updated: November 10, 2018

Pozzovivo at the Giro d'Italia 2014

Domenico Pozzovivo (born November 30, 1982 in Policoro ) is an Italian racing cyclist . He is considered a good mountain driver.

Athletic career

Pozzovivo received its first contract with an international cycling team , Pozzovivo received in 2005 with the Professional Continental Team Ceramica Panaria-Navigare . His best place in his first year there was fifth in the one-day race Giro dell'Appennino . His first international elite success came in 2009 on a stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda .

In the following years Pozzovivo, who moved to the UCI WorldTeam Ag2r La Mondiale in 2013 , was particularly successful in the stage races . He won the Brixia Tour 2010 and the Giro del Trentino 2012 . Pozzovivo also finished in the top ten four times between 2008 and 2014. His best placement was fifth overall in 2014 . In 2012 he finished eighth and won the mountain finish of the eighth stage after a solo attack 6.8 kilometers from the finish. At the Vuelta a España 2013 he was sixth. He broke his leg in 2014 and fell on his face a year later at the 2015 Giro d'Italia . As a result, 2016 did not go as expected for Pozzovivo. He finished sixth in the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia 2017 and won a stage in the subsequent Tour des Suisse .

In 2018, Pozzovivo joined the Bahrain-Merida team and finished fifth overall at the Giro d'Italia . After he was hit by a car during training in late summer 2019 and suffered a crushed lung in addition to broken bones, he did not receive a contract from the Bahrain team for the following season despite recovering after several operations. At the turn of the year it was announced that he had signed a two-year contract with the South African NTT Pro Cycling Team .

Professional and private

In addition to cycling, Pozzovivo graduated in 2010 with a degree in economics . He expressed an interest in history, politics, technology and known sympathies for the center-left Partito Democratico and the then Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti . In the following years he began a second degree in sports science . For this reason, his colleagues Dr. Called Pozzovivo .