Enrico Gasparotto

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Enrico Gasparotto
Gasparotto at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameEnrico Gasparotto
NicknameGiallo
Born (1982-03-22) 22 March 1982 (age 42)
Sacile, Italy
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamBora–Hansgrohe
DisciplineRoad
Role
Rider type
Professional teams
2005–2007Liquigas–Bianchi
2008Barloworld
2009Lampre–NGC
2010–2014Astana
2015–2016Wanty–Groupe Gobert
2017–2018Bahrain–Merida
2019–2020Team Dimension Data[1][2]
Managerial teams
2021Nippo–Provence–PTS Conti
2022–Bora–Hansgrohe
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2007)

Stage races

Ster Elektrotoer (2008)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2005)
Amstel Gold Race (2012, 2016)

Others

UCI Europe Tour (2007–08)

Enrico Gasparotto (born 22 March 1982) is an Italian-born Swiss former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2020, for seven different teams.[3] After retiring, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team EF Education–Nippo Development Team in 2021[4] before joining Bora–Hansgrohe in a similar role the following year.[5]

Career[edit]

Born in Sacile, Gasparotto turned professional in 2005 with Liquigas–Bianchi and stayed with the team for three years. At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Gasparotto led his Liquigas squad to a stage 1 team time trial win and wore the pink jersey the following day.

Gasparotto achieved his first Classics victory at the 2012 Amstel Gold Race; he won the race in an uphill finish, after Óscar Freire was caught 90 m (300 ft) before the finish line,[6] and Gasparotto out-sprinted Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert and Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale.[7] One week later, he took part in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, finishing third by beating a small group to the sprint in a race won by fellow Astana teammate, Maxim Iglinsky.[8]

At the Vuelta a España, bad luck hit Gasparotto and the Astana squad on the very first stage, a 16.5 km (10.3 mi) team time trial held in Pamplona. His teammates Paolo Tiralongo, Alexsandr Dyachenko, Andrey Zeits and Gasparotto himself crashed in an accident that was not picked up by the television cameras. His teammates could pick themselves up and continue, as did Gasparotto, but it was revealed that his collarbone was fractured in three places and he had to abandon the Spanish race.[9]

Gasparotto took a second Amstel Gold triumph when he won the 2016 edition of the race, defeating Michael Valgren in a two-up sprint after the pair broke away from the main group in the closing stages of the race. It was Gasparotto's first win since his 2012 victory, and he dedicated it to Antoine Demoitié, his teammate who had died after a crash at Gent–Wevelgem the previous month.[10]

Major results[edit]

2004
1st Stage 5 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
3rd Gran Premio di Poggiana
2005
1st Road race, Italian National Road Championships
1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya
3rd Overall Uniqa Classic
5th Coppa Bernocchi
6th Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico
10th Paris–Tours
2006
1st Memorial Cimurri
3rd Coppa Sabatini
6th Scheldeprijs
2007
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
Held after Stages 1 & 3
2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
4th Brabantse Pijl
Vuelta a Mallorca
5th Trofeo Mallorca
9th Trofeo Cala Millor
9th Memorial Cimurri
2008
1st Overall Ster Elektrotoer
1st Stage 3
1st Giro della Romagna
2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
2nd Coppa Placci
3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 1
3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
4th Trofeo Laigueglia
5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
6th Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
7th Brabantse Pijl
10th Overall Danmark Rundt
2009
1st Sprints classification, Tour de Suisse
2nd Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
3rd Coppa Bernocchi
8th Memorial Cimurri
2010
1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
3rd Amstel Gold Race
9th Montepaschi Strade Bianche
2011
4th Tre Valli Varesine
2012
1st Amstel Gold Race
3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
7th Trofeo Laigueglia
2013
5th Giro di Lombardia
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
9th Amstel Gold Race
2014
8th Amstel Gold Race
8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
9th Tre Valli Varesine
2015
8th Amstel Gold Race
8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
9th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
2016
1st Amstel Gold Race
2nd Brabantse Pijl
5th La Flèche Wallonne
6th Overall Tour of Belgium
2018
3rd Amstel Gold Race
3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
2019
7th Brabantse Pijl
9th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
10th La Flèche Wallonne

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 97 92 60 DNF 66 97 76 69
A yellow jersey Tour de France 95
A gold jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España 82 68 78 DNF 120

Classics results[edit]

Monument 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Milan–San Remo 31 12 137 13 90 DNF 14 DNF 53 49
Tour of Flanders DNF DNF
Paris–Roubaix Did not contest during his career
Liège–Bastogne–Liège 55 44 3 6 12 16 12 37 6 DNF 38
Giro di Lombardia DNF DNF DNF 5 DNF DNF DNF
Classic 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Strade Bianche Did not exist 8 30
Scheldeprijs 6
Brabantse Pijl 4 7 2 14 38 7 DNF
Amstel Gold Race 39 3 35 1 9 8 8 1 DNF 3 42 NH
La Flèche Wallonne 19 61 11 30 94 15 5 DNF 27 10 30
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec Race did not exist 27 8 31 36 50 NH
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 7 9 77 27 DNF
Paris–Tours 10 44 16 24
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dimension Data finalise 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. ^ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Enrico Gasparotto calls time on 16-year career". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Nippo-Provence-PTS Conti". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Bernhard Eisel and Enrico Gasparotto join Bora-Hansgrohe as sport directors". VeloNews. 13 November 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Freire says headwind blighted his chances of winning Amstel Gold Race". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 15 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Gasparotto wins Amstel stunner". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 15 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  8. ^ "Maxim Iglinsky wins Liège – Bastogne – Liège". Velo News. VeloNews.com. 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  9. ^ Ben Atkins (19 August 2012). "Vuelta a Espana: Fractured collarbone for Enrico Gasparotto in team time trial crash". Velo Nation. Velo Nation LLC. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  10. ^ "Enrico Gasparotto dedicates Amstel Gold win to Antoine Demoitié". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.

External links[edit]

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