Michele Scarponi

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Michele Scarponi Road cycling
Michele Scarponi (2006)
Michele Scarponi (2006)
To person
Date of birth September 25, 1979
date of death April 22, 2017
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders, tour riders
Team (s)
2002
2003–2004
2005–2006
2007
2008–2010
2011–2013
2014–2017 		Acqua & Sapone
Domina Vacanze
Liberty Seguros-Würth
Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni
Lampre-Merida
Astana
Most important successes

Jersey pink.svgOverall ranking Giro d'Italia 2011
Jersey blue.svg Overall ranking Tirreno – Adriatico 2009
three stages Giro d'Italia 2009 , 2010

Michele Scarponi (born September 25, 1979 in Filottrano ; † April 22, 2017 there ) was an Italian racing cyclist . He was subsequently declared the winner of the Giro d'Italia 2011 .

career

Scarponi began his career in 2002 with the Italian cycling team Acqua e Sapone . After a year he switched to Domina Vacanze , with whom he was fourth and seventh in the classics Flèche Wallonne and Liège – Bastogne – Liège . At the peace run in 2004 he won a stage and the overall ranking.

In 2006 Scarponi was excluded from the Tour de France because he was suspected of doping. On May 8, 2007, one day after Basso confessed, Scarponi also admitted that he had something to do with the Fuentes doping scandal . He also promised comprehensive clarification. He was then banned from the Italian cycling federation FCI with an 18-month ban, which lasted until November 15, 2008.

After his doping ban had expired, Scarponi had his greatest success to date, the overall victory of the Tirreno-Adriatico long-distance journey in 2009, which he secured with a stage win. At the Giro d'Italia 2009 he achieved two stage victories.

In 2010 he failed to repeat his success at Tirreno-Adriatico , because Stefano Garzelli took the missing seconds on the last stage in an intermediate sprint and was thus at the same time as Scarponi, so that the better stage placements made Garzelli the overall winner. At the Giro he drove for the first time on his own account. His shape was enough for a stage win and fourth place overall.

Scarponi finished the Giro d'Italia 2011 6:10 minutes behind Alberto Contador , who was subsequently suspended for a doping offense at the Tour de France 2010 , so that Scarponi subsequently became the overall winner.

At the end of 2012, Scarponi was banned by the Italian Olympic Committee CONI for three months until January 1, 2013. The suspension began retrospectively on October 1, 2012. He had admitted that he was advised on training issues by Michele Ferrari, who had been banned for life as a coach and team doctor in Italian sport .

In 2013 Scarponi finished fourth overall at the Giro d'Italia for the third time . At the Tour de France 2014 he was one of the helpers of the overall winner Vincenzo Nibali .

On April 22, 2017, Scarponi was fatally injured during a training drive in his birthplace Filottrano when he collided head-on with a pickup truck. Just a few days earlier, he had won his last bike race with the first stage of the Tour of the Alps .

successes

2004

2007

2009

2010

2011

2013

2015

2016

2017

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 18th 16 - 47 WD - - 31 4th 1 4th 4th WD - 16
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 32 - - - - - - - 24 - 49 41 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 13 - 11 - - - - - WD - 15th - - 11

Web links

Commons : Michele Scarponi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 18 months of doping ban for Scarponi. radsport-news.com, July 2007, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Garzelli still intercepts Scarponi. radsport-news.com, March 16, 2010, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Alberto Contador found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS): Suspension of two years ( Memento from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), tas-cas.org, February 6 2012, accessed on February 6, 2012, (English, PDF; 187 kB).
  4. ↑ Mild punishment for Scarponi after contact with doping doctor. rad-net.de, December 12, 2012, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Rad-Star dies in a training accident. sport1.de, April 22, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Astana professional Scarponi killed in training accident. rad-net.de, April 22, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Scarponi, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Filottrano
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2017
Place of death Filottrano