Gian Matteo Fagnini

Gian Matteo Fagnini

Gian Matteo Fagnini
To person
Date of birth	October 11, 1970
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Team (s)
1994–1995 1996–1999 2000–2003 2004 2005	Mercatone Uno Saeco Team Telekom Domina Vacanze Naturino-Sapore di Mare
Most important successes
Giro d'Italia 1998 : two stages

Gian Matteo Fagnini (born October 11, 1970 in Lecco ) is a former Italian cyclist .

As an amateur , Gian Matteo Fagnini won the 1991 Coppa Cigogna and Florence – Viareggio races . In 1993 he won the road race at the 1993 Mediterranean Games in Languedoc-Roussillon .

In 1994 Fagnini turned professional. He started eight times in the following years in the Tour de France ; four times he gave up and four times he was not among the top hundred. Fagnini gave up three times in the 1990s on the tour at the same time as his then captain Mario Cipollini , for whom he put on the sprint as part of the "treno rosso"; As a member of the Telekom team , Fagnini performed the same services as a noble domestics for Erik Zabel . In 2004 he switched to Domina Vacanze and drove again with Cipollini; In the last joint tour he broke his collarbone on the second stage and had to break off the tour early again.

Fagnini himself achieved few wins of his own. In 1997 he won one stage each of the Euskal Bizikleta and the Vuelta Ciclista a la Communidad Valenciana . At the Giro d'Italia 1998 he won two stages, won the Intergiro classification and finished third in the final points classification . In 2000 he won the Coca-Cola Trophy , the overall ranking of several criteria in various German cities. In 2001 he won around Cologne and in 2003 a stage of the Tour of Asturias .

In 2005 Gian Matteo Fagnini retired from active cycling.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Storia di Mario Cipollini on museociclismo.it accessed on September 7, 2013
2. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 5, 2004: Tour-off for Fagnini

Web links

• Gian Matteo Fagnini in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Gian Matteo Fagnini in the Tour de France database(French / English )