Davide Rebellin
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Davide Rebellin |
Date of birth | August 9, 1971 |
Country | Italy |
Team information | |
Current team | Team Gerolsteiner |
Professional team(s) | |
2004-present | Team Gerolsteiner |
Major wins | |
* 1x Liège-Bastogne-Liège |
Davide Rebellin (born 9 August 1971, San Bonifacio, province of Verona) is an Italian road bicycle racer.
He is most known in the cycling world for his sensational 2004 season. Riding for Gerolsteiner, he got seven victories, including an unprecedented and unrepeated treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He also scored a number of second places in top races such as Paris-Nice and Clásica de San Sebastián. However, he was not able to win the UCI World Cup.
He was on the Gerolsteiner team in the 2005 Tour de France. With a number of solid performances throughout the season, without any individual victories, Rebellin finished as the 3rd highest ranked rider in the 2005 ProTour rankings. Apart from the ProTour races, he only won one race in the 2005 season, taking the first stage of the Brixia Tour.
[edit] Major achievements
- 2006
- 1st, Giro dell'Emilia
- Stage 2 King of the Mountains classification leader, Deutschland Tour
- 3rd, Züri-Metzgete
- 6th, Amstel Gold Race
- 2005
- 2nd, Overall, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 3rd, La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd, GP Ouest-France
- 4th, Amstel Gold Race
- 5th, Giro di Lombardia
- 10th, Overall, Paris-Nice
- 2004
- 1st, Amstel Gold Race
- 1st, La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- 2003
- 2001
- 1st, Overall, Tirreno-Adriatico
- 1997
- 1st, Züri-Metzgete
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