Marco Pinotti
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| Pinotti in Saunier Duval-Prodir kit | |
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Marco Pinotti |
| Date of birth | February 25, 1976 |
| Country |  Italy |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team High Road |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1998 | Polti (Trainee) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1999–2004 2005–2006 2007– |
Lampre Saunier Duval-Prodir Team High Road |
| Infobox last updated on: | |
| January 4, 2008 | |
Marco Pinotti (born February 25, 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian professional cyclist.
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[edit] Career
As an amateur he won 28 races and he turned professional in 1999 with the Lampre-Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvosciks and he won the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.
In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November of 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.
The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Vuelta al País Vasco and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.
Pinotti joined the then newly-formed Spanish-Swiss Saunier Duval-Prodir team in 2004 in the UCI ProTour. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials[1] but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey.[2]
[edit] Palmares
- 2003
- Vuelta al País Vasco stage 4
- 2005
- Italy time trial championship
- 2007
- Italy time trial championship
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Ascani take TT tricolore. Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ Ascani faces suspension for EPO. Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
[edit] External links
- Fan website
- Marco Pinotti profile at the Cycling Website
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Pinotti, Marco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Road bicycle racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976-02-25 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osio Sotto, Lombardy, Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
