Matteo Carrara
Matteo Carrara (born March 25, 1979 in Alzano Lombardo ) is a former Italian professional cyclist .
biography
Matteo Carrara started cycling in 1987. His professional career started with Team Colpack Astro , which became De Nardi Colpack in 2003 . In this year the young Italian celebrated his first major successes, including a stage win on the Tour of Austria . The following year Carrara switched to the Lampre-Daikin team , who saw him as a hopeful sprinter. In 2005 Matteo Carrara was under contract with the South African team Barloworld for a year before he returned to Lampre-Fondital the following year . From 2009 to 2012 he drove for the Vcansoleil team . Here he was able to win the Circuit de Lorraine and the Tour of Luxembourg . After the 2012 season, he ended his career.
successes
2000
- Giro del Medio Brenta
- Overall ranking Mainfranken Tour
- one stage Grand Prix Tell
2003
- one stage tour of Austria
- two stage tour of Qinghai Lake
- Criterium d'Abruzzo
- 2004
- Team time trial Tour de Langkawi
- 2009
- Overall classification Circuit de Lorraine
- 2010
- Overall ranking Tour of Luxembourg
Teams
- 2000 Team Polti (Stagiaire)
- 2001 Colpack Astro
- 2002 Colpack Astro
- 2003 De Nardi-Colpack
- 2004 Lampre
- 2005 Barloworld
- 2006 Lampre-Fondital
- 2007 Unibet.com
- 2008 Quick Step
- 2009 Vacansoleil
- 2010 Vacansoleil
- 2011 Vacansoleil
- 2012 Vacansoleil
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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111 | 81 | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17th | 72 |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 | - | - | - | - |
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- | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | 37 | - | 146 | - |
Web links
- Matteo Carrara in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Matteo Carrara in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Matteo Carrara in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ it.eurosport.yahoo.com of December 5, 2012: Ciclismo - Matteo Carrara lascia il ciclismo: “Grazie a tutti” ( Memento of the original of December 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carrara, Matteo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Alzano Lombardo |