Matteo Tosatto

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Matteo Tosatto Road cycling
Matteo Tosatto 3.jpg
To person
Date of birth May 14, 1974
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Ineos
function Sports director
Team (s)
1997
1998–1999
2000–2005
2006–2010
2011–2016 		MG Maglificio-Technogym
Ballan
Fassa Bortolo
Quick Step-Innergetic
Tinkoff
Most important successes
Last updated: December 17, 2016

Matteo Tosatto (born May 14, 1974 in Castelfranco Veneto , Veneto ) is a former Italian cyclist and later sports director . He was considered one of the most reliable domestics in road cycling .

Career

Matteo Tosatto began his career in 1997 with the MG-Technogym cycling team . There he took part in the Tour de France in his first year . In 1998 he moved to Ballan and drove there for two years before joining Fassa Bortolo . There he first won a stage near Paris – Nice , finished second in Rund um den Henninger-Turm and rode three days in the Maglia Rosa at the Giro d'Italia 2000 . The following year he won a stage.

In 2002 Tosatto won the Italian one-day race Coppa Placci . In the 2004 season he won the Giro di Toscana and the GP Canton Aargau . In 2005 he finished second in the prologue to the Giro d'Italia . From 2006 to 2010 Tosatto drove for the Belgian ProTeam Quick Step . In the very first year he achieved his greatest success to date: He won the 18th stage of the Tour de France .

In 2011 Tosatto moved to the Danish team Saxo Bank , where he was to act as "Capitaine de route" and to bring his experience to the team during races. In this role he was involved in the success of Alberto Contador in his victories at the Giro d'Italia 2011 - later revoked due to a subsequent doping ban - and at the Vuelta a España 2012 .

After his team ceased operations at the end of the 2016 season and Tosatto's plan to switch to Trek-Segafredo together with Contador failed, he announced in December 2016 at the age of 42 that he would end his career as an active athlete.

In July 2017, Tosatto became Sports Director at Team Sky .

successes

1998

2000

2001

2002

2004

2006

Grand Tour overall ratings

Grand Tour 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - DNF 50 63 DNF 107 122 - 94 - - 56 136 104 - - 112 107
Yellow jersey Tour de France 132 - - - 60 - - 110 - 125 108 96 114 - 123 - 92 119 132 145
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - 134 - DNF DNF - DNF DNF 67 - 135 115 120 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Matteo Tosatto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Cossins, Stephen Farrand, Tim De Waele: The boys of the 20th century . In: Procycling , German edition . December, 2015, p. 42 ff .
  2. ^ Conal Andrews: Matteo Tosatto secures one year contract with Saxo Bank-SunGard. Velonation, November 22, 2010, accessed December 27, 2010 .
  3. ^ Matteo Tosatto: 'I'm not going to beg for another contract'. cyclingweekly.co.uk, December 15, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Uranium stays with Cannondale, Tossato becomes Sports Director at Sky. radsport-news.com, July 28, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tosatto, Matteo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist and sports director
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelfranco Veneto , Veneto