Gianluca Bortolami

Gianluca Bortolami
Personal information
Full name	Gianluca Bortolami
Born	(1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 Locate di Triulzi, Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1994) One-Day Races and Classics Tour of Flanders (2001) Wincanton Classic (1994) Züri-Metzgete (1994) Giro del Piemonte (1997) Grand Prix de Fourmies (2002) Others UCI Road World Cup (1994)

Gianluca Bortolami (born 28 August 1968) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Bortolami's greatest feats was capturing the monumental classic Tour of Flanders in 2001 and winning the 1994 UCI Road World Cup season championship. He is the namesake of Bortolami's Pizzeria in Vancouver, Washington.

Bortolami was born in Locate di Triulzi, province of Milan. He competed in the road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[1] He turned professional in 1990 and rode for Lampre. He finished 75th in the 2002 Tour de France, 46th in the 1997 Tour, 13th in the 1994 Tour with one stage win, and 73rd in the 1993 Tour. He was tested positive for cortisone in 2003 during Three Days of De Panne. He was suspended for six months by the Italian cycling federation.^[2]

Major results

1992: 1st, Stage 2, Tour de Romandie; 1st, Stages 10 & 11, Volta a Portugal
1993: 1st, Cronostaffeta
1994: Champion, UCI Road World Cup; 1st, Giro del Veneto; 1st, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore; 1st, Leeds Classic; 1st, Züri-Metzgete; 1st, Stage 7, Tour de France
1995: 1st, Prologue, Tour DuPont
1997: 1st, Coppa Bernocchi; 1st, Giro del Piemonte; 1st, Stage 5, Volta a Galega
1999: 1st, Stages 1 & 2, Tour of Austria
2001: 1st, Tour of Flanders; 1st, Sparkassen Giro Bochum; 1st, Stage 3, Brixia Tour; 1st, Stage 3, Tour de Suisse
2002: 1st, Giro della Romagna; 1st, Grand Prix de Fourmies; 1st, Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli; 1st, Milano–Vignola
2003: 1st, Stage 1, Three Days of De Panne
2004: 1st, Giro della Romagna; 1st, Stage 1, Tour of Belgium

Tour de France record

Did Not Finish (2005) (withdraw 16th stage)
76th Overall (2002)
46th Overall (1997)
13th Overall; Stage 6 win (1994)
73rd Overall (1993)

References

↑ "Gianluca Bortolami Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
↑ Bortolami positive

External links

Gianluca Bortolami at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)
Profile by world-of-cycling.com

UCI Road World Cup, UCI ProTour, UCI World Tour and UCI World Ranking winners

UCI Road World Cup	1989: Sean Kelly 1990: Gianni Bugno 1991: Maurizio Fondriest 1992: Olaf Ludwig 1993: Maurizio Fondriest 1994: Gianluca Bortolami 1995: Johan Museeuw 1996: Johan Museeuw 1997: Michele Bartoli 1998: Michele Bartoli 1999: Andrei Tchmil 2000: Erik Zabel 2001: Erik Dekker 2002: Paolo Bettini 2003: Paolo Bettini 2004: Paolo Bettini

UCI ProTour	2005: Danilo Di Luca 2006: Alejandro Valverde 2007: Cadel Evans 2008: Alejandro Valverde

UCI World Tour	2009: Alberto Contador 2010: Joaquim Rodríguez 2011: Philippe Gilbert 2012: Joaquim Rodríguez 2013: Joaquim Rodríguez 2014: Alejandro Valverde 2015: Alejandro Valverde

UCI World Ranking	currently in progress

Tour of Flanders winners

1900–1919	Paul Deman (1913) Marcel Buysse (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Van Lerberghe (1919)

1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920) René Vermandel (1921) Léon Devos (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Gérard Debaets (1924) Julien Delbecque (1925) Denis Verschueren (1926) Gérard Debaets (1927) Jan Mertens (1928) Joseph Dervaes (1929) Frans Bonduel (1930) Romain Gijssels (1931–1932) Alphonse Schepers (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934) Louis Duerloo (1935) Louis Hardiquest (1936) Michel D'Hooghe (1937) Edgard de Caluwé (1938) Karel Kaers (1939)

1940–1959	Achiel Buysse (1940–1941) Briek Schotte (1942) Achiel Buysse (1943) Rik Van Steenbergen (1944) Sylvain Grysolle (1945) Rik Van Steenbergen (1946) Emiel Faignaert (1947) Briek Schotte (1948) Fiorenzo Magni (1949–1951) Roger Decock (1952) Wim van Est (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Louison Bobet (1955) Jean Forestier (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Germain Derycke (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)

1960–1979	Arthur Decabooter (1960) Tom Simpson (1961) Rik Van Looy (1962) Noël Foré (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Jo de Roo (1965) Edward Sels (1966) Dino Zandegù (1967) Walter Godefroot (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Eric Leman (1970) Evert Dolman (1971) Eric Leman (1972–1973) Cees Bal (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Walter Planckaert (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Walter Godefroot (1978) Jan Raas (1979)

1980–1999	Michel Pollentier (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) René Martens (1982) Jan Raas (1983) Johan Lammerts (1984) Eric Vanderaerden (1985) Adri van der Poel (1986) Claude Criquielion (1987) Eddy Planckaert (1988) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1989) Moreno Argentin (1990) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1991) Jacky Durand (1992) Johan Museeuw (1993) Gianni Bugno (1994) Johan Museeuw (1995) Michele Bartoli (1996) Rolf Sørensen (1997) Johan Museeuw (1998) Peter Van Petegem (1999)

2000–2019	Andrei Tchmil (2000) Gianluca Bortolami (2001) Andrea Tafi (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Steffen Wesemann (2004) Tom Boonen (2005–2006) Alessandro Ballan (2007) Stijn Devolder (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Nick Nuyens (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013–2014) Alexander Kristoff (2015) Peter Sagan (2016)

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