Fabio Sacchi

Fabio Sacchi at the Tour de Romandie 2007

Fabio Sacchi (born May 23, 1974 in Milan ) is a former Italian cyclist .

Career

Fabio Sacchi became a professional at Polti in 1997 . He then drove at Saeco and Fassa Bortolo before moving to the Italian-German team Milram in 2006 . Sacchi took part in the Tour de France four times and won stages in the Tour of Murcia , the Tour Down Under and the Tour of Portugal . He celebrated his greatest success in 2005 near Milan-Turin . In 2009 he ended his professional career. He then took part in Gran Fondos and in 2009 won the prestigious Gran Fondo Nove Colli .

At the Giro d'Italia 2006 he set a record as a water carrier with 18 water bottles carried .

doping

In an investigation report by the Anti-Doping Commission of the French Senate in July 2013, Sacchi was accused of being among around 60 drivers who, on the basis of follow-up tests in 2004, had doped with the blood formation hormone erythropoietin (EPO for short) at the 1998 Tour de France could be proven.

Palmarès

1998

• Coppa Bernocchi

2003

• Giro della Romagna

2005

• Milan – Turin

Teams

• 1997-2000 Team Polti
• 2001–2003 Saeco Macchine per Caffè
• 2004-2005 Fassa Bortolo
• 2006-2007 Team Milram
• 2008 Preti Mangimi

Web links

• Fabio Sacchi in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Fabio Sacchi in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ newsciclismo.com from May 29, 2009: Ganfondo - Fabio Sacchi é il campione della Nove Colli ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Also Pantani, Heppner, Cipollini and Jalabert on the EPO list - Ullrich and Zabel doped on the 1998 tour. Report on spox.com, July 24, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2013.