Matteo Bono (born 11 November 1983) is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for through various team iterations between 2006 and 2018. During his career, he took three professional victories – stage wins at the 2007 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2007 Tour de Romandie and the 2011 Eneco Tour.
Career Born in Iseo, Bono turned professional in 2006 with . He took his first professional wins in 2007, winning stage six at Tirreno–Adriatico – soloing away from his breakaway companions Enrico Gasparotto and Giovanni Visconti with remaining – and stage three of the Tour de Romandie, having been in a breakaway with Fumiyuki Beppu and Marco Pinotti before outsprinting Beppu on the line. Between those victories, Bono also finished third at the Klasika Primavera, behind teammates Joaquim Rodríguez and Alejandro Valverde.
Bono did not win another race for another four years, until he won the penultimate stage of the Eneco Tour from a three-man breakaway in August 2011, holding off the main field by six seconds. Throughout the remainder of his career, Bono largely worked as a domestique, before retiring at the end of the 2018 season.
Major results Source:
2004 4th Gran Premio della Liberazione 8th Ruota d'Oro 2005 1st Trofeo Città di Brescia 4th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza 7th Trofeo Franco Balestra 2007 1st Stage 6 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 3 Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Pologne 3rd Klasika Primavera 2011 1st Stage 5 Eneco Tour
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Giro d'Italia 139— 123 86— 99— 77——— Tour de France— 117—— 93— DNF— 118 136 111 Vuelta a España—————— 143————
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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