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Marco Velo

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Marco Velo
Personal information
Full nameMarco Velo
Born (1974-03-09) 9 March 1974 (age 50)
Brescia, Italy
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1996–1997Brescialat
1998–2001Mercatone Uno–Bianchi
2002–2005Fassa Bortolo
2006–2008Team Milram
2009–2010Quick-Step
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (1998, 1999, 2000)

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

Professional career

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Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 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.[4]

Major results

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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 Points classification
1st Combination classification
1st Stage 4b (ITT)
1st Firenze–Pistoia
1st Coppe della Nazioni
2nd GP d'Europe (with Marco Serpellini)
4th Giro del Piemonte
6th Grand Prix des Nations
7th Trofeo Pantalica
1999
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Firenze–Pistoia
1st GP Llodio
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
8th Giro di Lombardia
9th Coppa Placci
10th Amstel Gold Race
2000
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
9th Coppa Bernocchi
2001
2nd Coppe dell Nazioni
2005
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

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Grand Tour 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 81 30 20 DNF DNF 11 21 100 103 87 108
A yellow jersey Tour de France 39 54 DNF DNF 97 42
A yellow jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España 57 114 DNF 118 117 93
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Notes and references

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