Matteo Carrara

Matteo Carrara at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2010

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
Giro d'Italia	111	81	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17th	72
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	37	-	146	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Matteo Carrara  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ 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.