Marco Velo

Marco Velo
Personal information
Full name Marco Velo
Born (1974-03-09) 9 March 1974
Brescia, Italy
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Professional team(s)
19961997 Brescialat
19982001 Mercatone Uno
20022005 Fassa Bortolo
20062008 Milram
20092010 Quick Step
Major wins
GP William Tell (1998)
GP Llodio (1999)
Infobox last updated on
19 August 2007

Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.

Professional career

Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions1998, 1999 and 2000. Since 2002, Velo has ridden as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to go join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team,[1] but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team,[2] but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.[3] For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team after all.[4]

Major results

In his career, Velo won:[5]

1997
stage, Giro del Trentino
1998
Coppe della Nazioni
stage, overall, points & combination competition GP Tell
Firenze–Pistoia
National Time Trial Championship
1999
Firenze–Pistoia
GP Llodio
National Time Trial Championship
2000
National Time Trial Championship
2006
Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi)

Notes and references


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