Matteo Trentin

Matteo Trentin
	Matteo Trentin (2015)
To person
Date of birth	2nd August 1989
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Driver type	Classic drivers, sprinters
To the team
Current team	CCC team
function	driver
doping
2007	Salbutamol
Team (s)
2011–2016 ; 2018–2019 ; 2020-	Quick Step ; Mitchelton-Scott ; CCC Team
Most important successes
	UCI WorldTour three stages Tour de France ( 2013 , 2014 , 2019 ) one stage Giro d'Italia ( 2016 ) four stages Vuelta a España ( 2017 ) UCI Road World Championships 2019 - road race UEC European Road Championships 2018 - road race
	Last updated: January 1st, 2020

Trentin before the start of the EuroEyes Cyclassics 2018 in Hamburg

Matteo Trentin (born August 2, 1989 in Borgo Valsugana ) is an Italian cyclist .

Career

Matteo Trentin was Italian junior cyclocross champion in 2007 . In the same year he was suspended for two months for doping with salbutamol . In 2010 he started at the Cyclocross World Championships in Tábor in the U23 race, where he finished ninth.

As an U23 rider, Trentin won a stage of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia in 2010 and the Gran Premio della Liberazione and the Trofeo Alcide Degasperi in 2011 . He was also the 2011 Italian U23 road champion.

At the end of the 2011 season, Trentin received a regular contract with the UCI ProTeam Omega Pharma-Quickstep and developed into an important helper , especially in the classics .

However, Trentin also achieved significant individual successes: He won the 14th stage of the Tour de France 2013 and the 7th stage of the Tour de France 2014 , each in the sprint of a breakaway group or the front field. In the two-man sprint against Tosh Van der Sande , he won the classic Paris-Tours in 2015 with the new record average speed of 49.6 km / h. At the Giro d'Italia 2016 he won the 18th stage in the sprint against Moreno Moser after he was able to catch up with him and his teammate Gianluca Brambilla after a descent - also because Brambilla refused to lead.

At the Vuelta 2017 , Trentin won the 4th stage from Escaldes-Engordany to Tarragona in a mass sprint, the mountainous 10th stage after a long escape in a two-man sprint from his last companion José Joaquín Rojas and the 13th stage and the final 21st stage again in the Mass sprint. Despite these four daily victories, he was just beaten in the points classification by the overall winner of the tour, Chris Froome , who sprinted on the final day to defend his green jersey. After his victory at the Grote Prijs Impanis-Van Petegem , he was fourth in the sprint of the road race at the subsequent World Championships . At the end of the season he won the classic Paris-Tours in a three-man sprint for the second time since 2015. After 6 years at Quick-Step Floors, he moved to the Australian team Mitchelton-Scott .

In 2018, Trentin won the road race at the European Championships in Glasgow in the sprint out of a group of six, ahead of Wout Van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel .

In the 2019 season, Trentin won the 17th stage of the Tour de France as a soloist after he had separated from the rest of an originally 34-strong top group 14 kilometers from the finish. In the road race of the 2019 World Championship , he was beaten only by Mads Pedersen in a sprint of a three-man leading group .