Giovanni Visconti (cyclist)
 Visconti at the 2016 Tour of Britain. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Giovanni Visconti |
| Nickname | Visco |
| Born |
13 January 1983 Turin, Italy |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Movistar Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2004–2005 | De Nardi |
| 2006 | Team Milram |
| 2007–2008 | Quick-Step–Innergetic |
| 2009–2011 | ISD |
| 2012– | Movistar Team[1] |
| Major wins | |
Other | |
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Infobox last updated on 15 September 2016 | |
Giovanni Visconti (born 13 January 1983 in Turin) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team.[2]
Professional career
Visconti won the Italian National Championship road race on 1 July 2007, beating Paolo Bossoni (Lampre–Fondital) and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) at the end in a sprint. At 12 km to go, Rebellin made his move. Visconti, Bossoni, and Christian Murro (Tenax-Menikini) took the wheels of the Gerolsteiner's rider. The four were able to keep the peloton away until the final meters.
"I'm over the moon," Visconti said, "I have thought about this race for a long time. The teamwork was perfect, and Bettini helped me a lot to stay calm and concentrate for the final. It's the best moment of my career. I won a lot when I was an espoir but nothing is comparable to this fantastic day!" It was the 24-year-old's second victory after the 2006 Coppa Sabatini.
In 2010, Visconti won the 2.HC Tour of Turkey's overall classification after pocketing two stages along the way. He stood on the podium with Tejay van Garderen of Team HTC–Columbia and David Moncoutié of Cofidis. Racing himself for ISD–NERI at the time, he said after the win: "Look at the teams we've beaten: HTC-Columbia and Cofidis, not bad for a team like ours, isn't it?"[3]
In April 2012, now riding for Movistar Team, Visconti took his first victory of the season at the Klasika Primavera by outsprinting his own teammate Alejandro Valverde and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Igor Anton. Four Movistar Team riders finished in the first five positions.[4] In May, Visconti had to withdraw from the Giro d'Italia during the fifteenth stage due to shortness of breath. He was told by his entourage that the event had all the symptoms of a panic attack.[5] He came back to racing and signed a victory at the Circuito de Getxo, where his puncheur qualities served him well on the final climb, where he outsprinted Danilo di Luca.[6] He went to the Tour of Burgos and finished seventh overall thanks to consistent placings, especially in the queen stage to the Lagunas de Neila where he was eighth.[7] In December, it has been announced by the Italian National Olympic Committee that Visconti was suspended for 3 months and would have to pay a 10,000 Euros fine since he worked with doctor Michele Ferrari, who had been banned for life for doping athletes. Visconti has denied Ferrari had ever supplied him with doping products. The suspension started retroactively on 10 October 2012.[8]
In 2015, Visconti won the best climber's jersey of the Giro d'Italia, thanks to attacks in the final stages of the race. He qualified his conquest of the blue jersey as "a consolation" since he was going for stage wins that did not materialize during those attacks.[9] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.[10]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2003
- 1st
National Under-23 Road Race Championships - 1st GP Inda-Trofeo Aras Frattini
- 1st Trofeo G. Bianchin
- 1st GP Kranj
- 2004
- 1st GP Kranj
- 1st Stages 2 & 4b Giro delle Regioni
- 1st Tour des Flandres Espoirs
- 2nd Menton-Savona
- 2005
- 3rd Firenze–Pistoia
- 2006
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 2nd Trofeo Melinda
- 2nd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 2007
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st Stage 2a Brixia Tour
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 3rd Firenze–Pistoia
- 2008
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 2nd Memorial Cimurri
- 2nd Japan Cup
- 4th Giro di Lombardia
- 2009
- 1st UCI Europe Tour
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia
- 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 1st Trofeo Melinda
- 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
- 2nd Coppa Sabatini
- 2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
- 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
- 5th Overall Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT)
- 2010
- 1st UCI Europe Tour
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour of Turkey
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Luxembourg
- 1st Classica Sarda Olbia-Pantogia
- 2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 2nd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 3rd Trofeo Melinda
- 3rd Giro della Romagna
- 2011
- 1st UCI Europe Tour
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
- 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
- 1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 2nd Overall Giro di Padania
- 2nd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
- 3rd Overall Tour of Oman
- 3rd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
- 3rd Coppa Bernocchi
- 4th Overall Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 5
- 7th Giro di Lombardia
- 2012
- 1st Klasika Primavera
- 1st Circuito de Getxo
- 3rd Memorial Marco Pantani
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 2013
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 15 & 17
- 7th Roma Maxima
- 9th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2015
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 1st
Team classification Vuelta a España - 2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
- 6th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 8th Milano–Torino
- 8th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer
- 2016
- 1st Klasika Primavera
- 3rd Overall Giro di Toscana
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 4th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 8th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th Trofeo Pollenca-Port de Andratx
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro |
77 | 42 | 76 | — | 49 | WD | 35 | — | 18 | 13 |
 Tour |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — |
 Vuelta |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | — |
WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP
References
- ↑ Stokes, Shane (30 December 2011). "Juan Jose Cobo signs two year contract with Movistar team". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ "Movistar Team (MOV) – ESP". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ Jean-Francois Quénet (19 April 2010). "Greipel takes the final stage". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ "Movistar's Giovanni Visconti won the Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta in Spain". Euro Sport. Eurosport.com. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ↑ Simon MacMichael (20 May 2012). "Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Lone escapee Rabottini hangs on to win from Rodriguez, Spaniard takes back overall lead". Road.cc. Farrelly Atkinson Ltd. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
- ↑ Alastair Hamilton (2 August 2012). "Visconti wins Circuito de Getxo". Euro Trash. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ↑ Peter Hymas (5 August 2012). "Moreno wins 2012 Vuelta a Burgos". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ↑ Shane Stokes (14 December 2012). "Visconti handed three month ban and €11,000 penalty for working with Ferrari". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ↑ "Giro d'Italia: Blue jersey is a consolation, says Visconti". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 30 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
External links
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- Giovanni Visconti profile at ProCyclingStats
- Giovanni Visconti at Cycling Base