Davide Cimolai

Davide Cimolai

Cimolai at the 2013 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full name Davide Cimolai
Nickname Cimo
Born (1989-08-13) 13 August 1989
Pordenone, Italy
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current team FDJ
Discipline Road and track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter/Lead-out man
Professional team(s)
2010–2011 Liquigas–Doimo
2012–2016 Lampre–ISD
2017– FDJ
Major wins

One-Day Races and Classics

Trofeo Laigueglia (2015)

Davide Cimolai (born 13 August 1989) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam FDJ.[1]

Career

Born in Pordenone, Cimolai has competed as a professional since the 2010 season, competing for the Liquigas–Doimo team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Lampre–ISD squad for the 2012 season.[2] Cimolai made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Vuelta a España, where he was the Lampre–ISD team's main sprinter in a climber-stacked squad; he finished inside the top ten of a stage for the first time, when he placed seventh on the second stage.[3][4]

Cimolai's first two professional wins came in 2015. He won the Italian Trofeo Laigueglia classic, then, a month later, won the fifth stage of Paris–Nice.[5][6]

Career achievements

Major results

2005
2nd Time trial, National Novice Championships
2007
1st Giro Ciclistico della Bassa Friulana
1st Gran Premio Ormesani
1st Medaglia d'oro Sportivi Castione
1st Giro della Romagna
1st GP R.E.M. Crema
1st Giro Delle Conche
1st Trofeo Orogildo
National Junior Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
2008
1st Piccolo Giro d'Emilia
1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone
2nd UIV CUP Fiorenzuola
3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Under–23 Track Championships
2009
1st Coppa San Geo
1st Trofeo Franco Balestra
1st Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
2nd Trofeo Marco Rusconi
2nd Medaglia d'Oro Fiera di Sommacampagna
3rd Medaglia d'Oro Frare De Nardi
3rd Memorial Danilo Furlan
3rd La Popolarissima
4th Giro Nazionale del Valdarno
5th Circuito Internazionale di Caneva
5th GP De Nardi
7th Trofeo Edil C
2010
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
4th Circuito de Getxo
9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2011
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
1st Scratch race
2nd Madison
National Track Championships
1st Scratch race
1st Madison
2nd Team pursuit
6th GP Kranj
2012
9th Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
2013
3rd Trofeo Platja de Muro
4th Grand Prix de Fourmies
5th Brussels Cycling Classic
2014
7th Vattenfall Cyclassics
2015
1st Trofeo Laigueglia
1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
8th Milan–San Remo
2016
1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 2 Tour of Japan
2017
1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 137 — — 168 152
A red jersey Vuelta a España 163 — — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ "Lampre-Merida (LAM) – ITA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. ↑ van Eyck, Xylon (5 November 2011). "Davide Cimolai bolsters Lampre-ISD sprint train". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Atkins, Ben (19 August 2012). "John Degenkolb takes stage two in tight, uphill sprint". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Westemeyer, Susan (19 August 2012). "Degenkolb sprints to Vuelta a Espana stage 2 win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Trofeo Laigueglia 2015 - Classic". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Paris - Nice 2015 - Stage 5". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
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