Marco Pinotti

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Marco Pinotti Road cycling
Pinotti at the start of the 2006 tour of Germany in Düsseldorf
Pinotti at the start of the 2006 tour of Germany in Düsseldorf
To person
Date of birth February 25, 1976
nation ItalyItaly
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team CCC team
function supervisor
Team (s)
1999–2004
2005–2006
2007–2011
2012–2013 		Lampre
Saunier Duval-Prodir
HTC-Highroad
BMC Racing Team
Most important successes
  • two stages of the Giro d'Italia
  • MaillotItalia.svg 6 × Italian champion individual time trial
Last updated: March 16, 2017

Marco Pinotti (born February 25, 1976 in Osio Sotto ) is a former Italian cyclist . He was six times Italian time trial champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013).

Athletic career

He won his first Italian championship title in 1998 in the team time trial . Marco Pinotti achieved a total of 28 victories as an amateur and got the opportunity to jump into the professional field in 1998 as a stagiaire with the Polti team. He then got a professional contract with the Italian cycling team Lampre-Daikin . In 1999 he and his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks won the pair time trial European GP , and a year later he won a stage of the Tour of Poland . He took part in the Tour de France three times , with his best result in 2001 being 52nd place in the overall standings, in which he was once stage runner-up behind Rik Verbrugghe . In the Tour of the Basque Country in 2003, he won a stage and secured first place in the mountain classification. From 2005 he drove for the Spanish ProTeam Saunier Duval-Prodir . In the same year he won the Italian time trial championships for the first time .

For the 2007 season he moved to the German T-Mobile team . For this team he achieved stage wins at the Giro d'Italia 2008 , the Basque Country Tour 2009 and the Tour de Romandie 2010 . In 2012 he moved to the BMC Racing Team and won the final time trial of the Giro d'Italia 2012 . In this discipline he also started at the Olympic Games in London and finished fifth.

After the end of the 2013 season, which started for him with a serious fall on the Tour Méditerranéen , Pinotti ended his active cycling career as a professional. The manager of the BMC Racing Team, Jim Ochowicz , announced that Pinotti would be employed elsewhere in the team from 2014.

Personal

Pinotti has a university degree (master's) as an engineer, which he obtained in 2000 after studying five years at the University of Bergamo .

successes

1999

2000

2003

2005

2007

2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - 48 60 18th 65 40 9 DNF 41 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 113 - 52 DNF - - - - - - - - - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - DNF - - - - - - - - - - - WD
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Marco Pinotti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1478 (Flemish).
  2. ↑ Heike Oberfeuchtner: End of career: Marco Pinotti has his last big appearance on the Lombardy Tour. live-radsport.ch, October 4, 2013, accessed on October 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Pinotti graduates. Cyclingnews, December 21, 2000, accessed August 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Pinotti, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Osio Sotto