Silvio Martinello

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Silvio Martinello Road cycling
Silvio Martinello (2014)
Silvio Martinello (2014)
To person
Nickname Il professors
Date of birth January 19, 1963
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Most important successes
Olympic games
2000 bronze - two-man team driving
1996 gold - points race
UCI track world championships
1995, 1996 World Champion - two-man team driving
1996 bronze - points race
Giro d'Italia
1991 - one stage
1996 - one stage
Last updated: June 28, 2017

Silvio Martinello (born January 19, 1963 in Padua ) is a former Italian cyclist and Olympic champion. He was the most successful and versatile Italian cyclist of the 1990s. Most recently, he commented on the television broadcasts of the Giro d'Italia and other cycling competitions on the Italian television channel Rai .

Athletic career

In 1985 Silvio Martinello became the amateur world champion in team pursuit together with Roberto Amadio , Massimo Brunelli and Gianpaolo Grisandi . The following year he became a professional racing driver.

In 1995 Martinello became two-time world champion , in the points race and with Marco Villa in the two-man team race .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Martinello won the gold medal in the points race, four years later in Sydney together with Marco Villa the bronze medal in the two-man team race . Overall, he brought u. a. four world titles and eleven national Italian titles. He started in a total of 97 six-day races, of which he won 28, 16 of which together with Villa. This puts the duo in sixth place among the best six-day pairings (as of 2017). Other prominent partners of Martinello included Rolf Aldag , Erik Zabel and Bjarne Riis .

Martinello started four times in the Tour de France ; In 1994 he was second in the points classification, behind Jamolidin Abduschaparow . He contested the Giro d'Italia nine times; In 1991 and 1996 he won one stage each. In 1996 he also wore the Maglia Rosa for four stages . In the Vuelta a España , he once went to the start.

In 2003, Silvio Martinello ended his active cycling career at the age of 40.

Professional and family

Martinello ended his active cycling career, among other things, because he was offered a position as a commentator at the RAI . From 2013 he was the technical director of the Giro transmissions. In February 2019 he announced on Facebook that he would no longer work for RAI in the future, speaking of a "certain bitterness".

Martinello runs a fitness club in Selvazzano Dentro near Padua and organizes bike races himself, such as the six-day race in Milan in 2008 .

His son Nicolò was also active as a cyclist until 2014. His daughter Francesca was active in triathlon and was then successful as a show jumper .

Honors

In June 2017, one of the curves in the Velodromo Pier Giovanni Mecchia in Portogruaro was named after Silvio Martinello.

successes

train

1985
1989
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - one's pursuit
1990
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - points race
1991
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - points race
1995
1996
1997
1998

Six days race

1990
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001

Street

1991
1992
1996
1997
1998
1999

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 107 108 - 149 99 - - 92 DNF - DNF - 105
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - 94 DNF - - - 114 -
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - DNF - - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

literature

  • Roger De Maertelaere, De Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000

Web links

Commons : Silvio Martinello  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen-statistieken 2010, No. 17, p. 23.
  2. ^ Pino Lazzaro: Silvio Martinello, il "professore" che racconta il Giro agli italiani. In: difesapopolo.it. May 20, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ^ Rai, cambia il commentatore tecnico del Giro d'Italia. In: Virgilio Sport. January 8, 2035, accessed February 11, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ^ Francesco Coppola: Portogruaro. Una curva per Martinello. In: tuttobiciweb.it. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Martinello, Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua , Italy