Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
Professional career Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, was seen as a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. From 2002, Velo rode as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team, but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team, but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.Velo wants to follow TosattoVelo confirms with Domina VacanzePetacchi & Zabel to new German/Italian team? For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team.Quick Step signings
Major results Source:
1997 1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino 7th Overall Critérium International 8th Tour du Haut Var 1998 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 1st Stage 4b (ITT) 1st Firenze–Pistoia 4th Giro del Piemonte 6th Grand Prix des Nations 7th Trofeo Pantalica 1999 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Gran Premio de Llodio 1st Firenze–Pistoia 2nd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato 2nd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa 5th GP Miguel Induráin 5th Trofeo Melinda 6th Japan Cup 7th La Flèche Wallonne 7th Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta 8th Giro di Lombardia 9th Coppa Placci 10th Amstel Gold Race 2000 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Memorial Cecchi Gori 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 9th Coppa Bernocchi 2001 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 2002 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Serhiy Honchar) 2005 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 3rd Giro di Toscana 6th Coppa Bernocchi 7th Trofeo Luis Puig 9th Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2006 1st Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi)
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Giro d'Italia813020DNFDNF11 —21100103 — —87 —108 Tour de France — — — —39 —54DNFDNF —97 —42 — — / Vuelta a España — — — — — —57 —114DNF118117 —93 —
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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References
External links
Personal website