Nicola Minali
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Nicola Minali |
| Born |
November 10, 1969 Isola della Scala, Italy |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1993 1994–1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001–2002 |
Mecair-Ballan Gewiss-Ballan Batik-Del Monte Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio Alexia Alluminio Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola |
| Major wins | |
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Paris–Tours (1995, 1996) Tour de France, 3 stages Giro d'Italia, 2 stages Vuelta a España, 7 stages | |
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Infobox last updated on October 14, 2007 | |
Nicola Minali (born November 10, 1969 in Isola della Scala, Veneto) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. He won a total of twelve stages in Grand Tours, including the prestigious Champs-Élysées stage in 1997 Tour de France. He also won the Paris–Tours classic two times.
His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate in 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.[1]
Major results
- 1993 – Mecair-Ballan
- 1st, Stage 2, Three Days of De Panne
- 1994 – Gewiss-Ballan
- 1st, Stage 5, Tour de France
- 1st, Stages 2 and 5, Tour de Romandie
- 1st, Stage 2, Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1995 – Gewiss-Ballan
- 1st, Paris–Tours
- 1st, Stage 6, Giro d'Italia
- 1st, Stages 2, 4 and 5, Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st, Stages 3 and 6, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st, Stage 3, Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana
- 1st, Stage 1, Vuelta a Aragón
- 1st, Stages 1, 6 and 11, Vuelta a España
- 1996 – Gewiss-Playbus
- 1st, Paris–Tours
- 1st, Stage 5, Danmark Rundt
- 1st, Stages 1 and 5, Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st, Stages 2, 8, 9 and 16, Vuelta a España
- 1997 – Batik-Del Monte
- 1st, Stage 1, Danmark Rundt
- 1st, Stage 3, Giro di Puglia
- 1st, Stage 1, Giro di Sardegna
- 1st, Stages 1 and 2, Gran Premio Jornal de Noticias
- 1st, Stages 4 and 21, Tour de France
- 1st, Stages 1 and 4, Volta ao Alentejo
- 1998 – Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio
- 1st, Giro dell'Etna
- 1st, Stage 3, Giro d'Italia
- 1st, Stage 3a, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 1st, Stage 5a, Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st, Stge 5, Tour Méditerranéen
- 1999 – Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio
- 1st, Stage 1, Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st, Stage 5, Settimana Lombarda
- 2001 – Tacconi Sport
- 1st, Stage 5, Postgirot Open
- 1st, Stages 1 and 2, Tour of Rhodes
References
External links
- Nicola Minali at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)
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