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| Full name | Marco Velo | ||
| Born | March 9, 1974 Italy |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 74 kg (160 lb) | ||
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| Current team | Retired | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Professional team(s) | |||
| 1996–1997 1998–2001 2002–2005 2006–2008 2009–2010 |
Brescialat Mercatone Uno Fassa Bortolo Milram Quick Step |
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| Infobox last updated on August 19, 2007 |
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Marco Velo (born March 9, 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
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Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. Since 2002, Velo has ridden as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to go join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team,[1] but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team,[2] but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.[3] For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team after all.[4]
In his career, Velo won:[5]