Marco Villa (cyclist)

Marco Villa

Marco Villa (2017)
To person
Date of birth	February 8, 1969
nation	Italy
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
Olympic games 2000 - two-man team driving UCI track world championships 1995, 1996 - two-man team driving
Last updated: June 27, 2017

Marco Villa (born February 8, 1969 in Abbiategrasso ) is a former Italian cyclist and current coach. As an active athlete, he was a specialist in two-man team driving and six-day races .

Athletic career

Marco Villa became a professional driver in 1993 . Together with Silvio Martinello , he won the bronze medal in the two-man team driving at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and together with him in 1995 and 1996 the world championships in the same discipline.

Villa started in 153 six-day races , of which he won 24, 15 of which were Silvio Martinello, Villa Italy's second most successful six-day driver to date (2017) after Martinello, who won 28 races.

Two times - in 1995 (118th) and 2001 (133rd) - Villa competed in the Giro d'Italia

In 2008 Villa wanted to start again at the Olympic Games . During a routine examination in July 2008, however, the doctors determined a heart disease, so that he immediately withdrew from active cycling.

Professional

Marco Villa then became technical director of the railway department at the Italian cycling association Federazione Ciclista Italiana .

successes

train

1989

• World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Giovanni Lombardi , Ian Cerioli and David Solari )

1995

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )
• Italian champion - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )
• Six days Grenoble (with Silvio Martinello )

1996

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )

1998

• World Cup in Hyères - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )
• Italian champion - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )

2000

• Olympic Games - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )
• European Championship - two-man team driving (with Silvio Martinello )

2003

• Italian champion - two-man team driving (with Samuele Marzoli )

Six days race

Villa in 2007

1996

• Bassano del Grappe (with Silvio Martinello )
• Bordeaux (with Silvio Martinello )
• Bremen (with Silvio Martinello )
• Milan (with Silvio Martinello )

1997

• Bordeaux (with Silvio Martinello )
• Médellin (with Silvio Martinello )
• Milan (with Silvio Martinello )
• Zurich (with Silvio Martinello )

1998

• Bassano del Grappa (with Adriano Baffi )
• Gent (with Silvio Martinello )
• Copenhagen (with Silvio Martinello )
• Berlin (with Silvio Martinello )

1999

• Milan (with Silvio Martinello )

2000

• Berlin (with Silvio Martinello )

2001

• Turin (with Ivan Quaranta )
• Stuttgart (with Silvio Martinello )
• Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Ivan Quaranta )

2002

• Amsterdam (with Silvio Martinello )
• Grenoble (with Adriano Baffi )
• Turin (with Ivan Quaranta )

2004

• Turin (with Ivan Quaranta )

2005

• Turin (with Sebastián Donadío )

2006

• Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Franco Marvulli )

literature

• Roger De Maertelaere: De Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen . De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X .

Web links

Commons : Marco Villa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marco Villa in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Marco Villa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Website of Villas hometown Montodine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-rail world champion Villa finally gets off his bike. (No longer available online.) N24.de, July 20, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 29, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ^ Settore Pista Nazionale - Pista. In: pista.federciclismo.it. December 20, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015 (Italian).