Gianni Moscon

Gianni Moscon
	Gianni Moscon (2016)
To person
Date of birth	20th April 1994 (age 26)
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Ineos
function	driver
Team (s)
2016-	Team Sky / Team Ineos
Most important successes
	UCI Road World Championships 2017 - team time trial UCI WorldTour 2018 Tour of Guangxi
	Last updated: March 1, 2020

Gianni Moscon (born April 20, 1994 in Trento ) is an Italian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Gianni Moscon started cycling when he was “six or seven”, as he himself says. During these years Gilberto Simoni , who comes from the same area as Moscon, won the Giro d'Italia twice , which confirmed his will to become a cyclist. First he finished school, then he turned increasingly to sports.

In 2015 Moscon won the Piccolo Giro di Lombardia . The following year he was Italian U23 road racing champion and won the U23 Nations Cup race Coppa dei Laghi-Trofeo Almar . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2015 , he finished fourth in the U23 road race.

In the 2016 season Moscon received a contract with the UCI WorldTeam Sky . He won a stage and the overall ranking of the Arctic Race of Norway . He finished third at the Settimana Internazionale 2016 . The following year he was Italian time trial champion . At the 2017 road world championships, he and his team won the bronze medal in the team time trial. In the following year, he finished fourth in the time trial world championships and fifth in road racing. A few weeks later he also became national time trial champion and won the UCI WorldTour - Tour of Guangxi stage race .

Disciplinary problems

At the 2017 road world championships, Gianni Moscon initially finished 29th in the road race after attacking Julian Alaphilippe in the final stages of the race . However, he was disqualified because he was brought back to the field after a fall by the Italian coach Davide Cassani by holding on to the drinking bottle handed out from the support car.

During the Tour de Romandie 2017 , Moscon racially insulted the dark-skinned driver Kévin Réza . After Reza's teammate Sébastien Reichenbach published the process on Twitter , Moscon apologized to Reza. His team Sky suspended Moscon for six weeks and obliged him to take part in a “diversity awareness course”.

In October 2017 he was accused of having brought Reichenbach down at the Tre Valli Varesine by driving in a dangerous manner, causing him to break his elbow. In June 2018, Moscon was acquitted of this charge by the Disciplinary Commission of the Union Cycliste Internationale for lack of evidence. The Gazzetta dello Sport reported that there had been contradicting testimony during the 11-hour hearing.

Due to video evidence, Moscon was disqualified at the end of the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2018 because he had beaten his competitor Élie Gesbert during a position battle shortly after the start . At the beginning of August, his team announced that Moscon would not be allowed to compete in races until the UCI disciplinary committee had made a final decision. A few days later, the UCI announced that Moscon would be banned for five weeks until September 12th. As a result, he could not start at the Vuelta a España or the WorldTour races in Canada, but take part in the road world championships.

In March 2020 Moscon was disqualified at Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne . After a mass fall, he had thrown a bike lying on his racing bike in the direction of a competitor and hit him on the upper body.