Fabio Baldato

Fabio Baldato

Fabio Baldato (1997)
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Date of birth	13th June 1968 (age 52)
nation	Italy
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Current team	End of career
Last updated: January 16, 2018

Fabio Baldato (born June 13, 1968 in Lonigo ) is an Italian sporting director in cycling, former cyclist and two-time Olympian (1988, 1996).

Athletic career

Fabio Baldato began his career as a professional cyclist in 1991 and has since ridden for Fassa Bortolo and Alessio-Bianchi, among others . In 2006 he drove for the Italian Professional Continental Team Tenax Salmilano , which had an Irish license. From 2007 he was represented in the ProTour again and drove for Lampre-Fondital .

Baldato competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 1988 and 1996 . In 1988 in Seoul , together with the Italian team ( Ivan Beltrami , Gianpaolo Grisandi , David Solari and Fabrizio Trezzi ), he finished sixth in the team pursuit on the track , eight years later in Atlanta in seventh place in the road race .

Baldato's greatest successes include the victories at Rund um den Henninger-Turm , the Coppa Bernocchi , Rund um die Nürnberg Altstadt and the Étoile de Bessèges . He also won stages in all three major country tours as well as Paris – Nice , the Tour of Poland and the Tour of Austria . Baldato, who actually wanted to end his career with the classic Paris-Tours , announced his resignation at the end of August of that year due to a broken collarbone that he suffered on the ENECO Tour 2008 .

Professional

After his active career, Baldato became one of the sporting directors of the UCI WorldTeam BMC Racing Team .

successes

Fabio Baldato at the Euskal Bizikleta 2007

1993 two stages of the Giro d'Italia 1994 two stages Paris – Nice 1995 a Paris-Nice stage a stage Tour de France Around the old town of Nuremberg 1996 a stage Tour de France Coppa Bernocchi two stages Vuelta a España 1998 Around the Henninger Tower a stage Tour de Romandie

2000 a Paris-Nice stage 2003 Overall ranking Étoile de Bessèges a stage of the Giro d'Italia one stage tour of Poland 2004 two stages tour of Poland 2006 one stage tour of Austria 2007 one stage tour of Austria

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Giro d'Italia	DNF	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	79	-	76	-	130	-	-	109
Tour de France	-	-	DNF	63	DNF	DNF	-	-	81	132	DNF	135	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	116	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

1991 Del Tongo-MG Boys 1992-1994 GB-MG Maglificio 1995-1997 MG Maglificio-Technogym 1998 Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio 1999 Ballan-Alessio 2000–2002 Fassa Bortolo 2003-2004 Alessio 2004 Alessio-Bianchi 2005 Fassa Bortolo 2006 Tenax 2007 Lampre-Fondital

Web links

Commons : Fabio Baldato  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fabio Baldato in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Fabio Baldato in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Fabio Baldato in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fabio Baldato in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baldato declares resignation. In: radsport-news.com. August 22, 2008, accessed November 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Baldato and Savary new sporting directors at BMC Racing. In: radsport-news.com. November 16, 2009, accessed November 23, 2015 .