Diego Ulissi

Diego Ulissi
Personal information
Ulissi at the 2011 Giro d'Italia
Full name	Diego Ulissi
Born	(1989-07-15) 15 July 1989 Cecina, Italy
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lampre-Merida
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Puncheur/All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2010–	Lampre-Farnese Vini
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 3 individual stages (2011, 2014) Stage races Tour of Slovenia (2011) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali (2013) Single-day races and Classics Milano–Torino (2013) Giro dell'Emilia (2013)
Infobox last updated on 4 June 2014

Diego Ulissi (born 15 July 1989 in Cecina) is an Italian road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lampre-Merida.^[1]

Professional career

He won the Junior World Road Race Championships in 2006 and 2007. He is the second cyclist ever – after Giuseppe Palumbo – to achieve two consecutive World Junior Road titles. He was awarded stage 17 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after Giovanni Visconti was relegated for improper sprinting.^[2]

In June 2011 he won one stage,^[3] and the overall classification at the Tour of Slovenia.^[4]

In June 2014 it was announced that Ulissi had failed a drug test during the 2014 Giro d'Italia, during which he won two stages. He tested positive for the asthma drug salbutamol, which is found in Ventolin. Ulissi had permission to use Ventolin, however the test indicated that he had almost twice the permitted concentration of salbutamol in his urine.^[5]