Nicola Ruffoni

Nicola Ruffoni

Nicola Ruffoni (2016)
To person
Date of birth	December 14, 1990
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Driver type	sprinter
To the team
Current team	Bardiani CSF Faizanè
function	driver
doping
2017-2021	HGH derivative
Last updated: May 5, 2017

Nicola Ruffoni (born December 14, 1990 in Brescia ) is an Italian racing cyclist .

Career

Ruffoni won two stages of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia and the road race of the Mediterranean Games in 2013 . At the end of the season he drove with the Professional Continental Team Bardiani as a stagiaire , with which he received a regular contract from the 2014 season.

For his new team, Ruffoni won a stage of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes in 2014, two stages of the Tour of Austria and the one-day GP Beghelli race in 2016 and two stages and the points classification of the Tour of Croatia in 2017 .

Before the subsequent Giro d'Italia 2017 , he and his team colleague Stefano Pirazzi were tested for a derivative of prohibited growth hormones and the UCI suspended him on suspicion of doping one day before the start of the race . A four-year ban until May 3, 2018, issued by the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal on December 14, 2017, was confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in November 2018 .

successes

2013

• two stages of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
• Mediterranean Games - street races

2014

• a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes

2016

• two stages tour of Austria
• GP Beghelli

2017

• two stages and points evaluation of the Tour of Croatia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doping cases before the Giro d'Italia: Two Italian professional cyclists tested positive. In: Spiegel Online . May 4, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Consequences Imposed on License Holders as Result of Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) as per the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR). In: uci.org. Retrieved November 16, 2018 . 
3. ^ UCI statement on Nicola Ruffoni. In: uci.org. November 16, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Nicola Ruffoni  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nicola Ruffoni in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Nicola Ruffoni in the ProCyclingStats.com database