Marco Pinotti

Marco Pinotti

Personal information
Full name	Marco Pinotti
Born	February 25, 1976 (1976-02-25) (age 35)  Italy
Team information
Current team	HTC-Highroad
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Triallist
Amateur team(s)
1998	Polti (Trainee)
Professional team(s)
1999-2004 2005–2006 2007–2011 2012–	Lampre-Daikin Saunier Duval-Prodir T-Mobile Team BMC Racing Team
Major wins
Giro d'Italia, 1 Stage, 2 TTT Vuelta al País Vasco, 2 Stages Tour of Ireland (2008) National Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Infobox last updated on 8 May 2011

Marco Pinotti (born February 25, 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam HTC-Highroad. Pinotti is a specialist of individual time trial, in which he is a five-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010).

Career

As an amateur he won 28 races and he turned professional in 1999 with the Lampre-Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and he won the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.

In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.

The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Vuelta al País Vasco and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.

Pinotti joined the then newly-formed Spanish team Saunier Duval-Prodir team in 2005. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials^[1] but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey.^[2] Pinotti retained the title in 2008.

In 2008, Pinotti joined team Highroad, which became Columbia HighRoad in 2009 and HTC-Columbia in 2010.

For the 2012 season Marco will now ride for BMC Racing Team after HTC folded.

Palmares

2003

1st Stage 4 Vuelta al País Vasco

2005

1st National Time Trial Champion

2007

1st National Time Trial Champion

2008

1st National Time Trial Champion

1st Overall Tour of Ireland

1st Stage 21, Giro d'Italia

3rd Overall Tour de Romandie

2009

1st National Time Trial Champion

1st Stage 5 Vuelta al País Vasco

1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 3 TTT Tour de Romandie

2010

1st National Time Trial Champion

7th Overall, Tour de Romandie

1st Prologue

5th Overall Vuelta al País Vasco

9th Overall Giro d'Italia

2011

1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia Wore Pink Jersey on Stage 2

4th Overall Tour de Romandie

6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

Notes and references

1. ^ "Ascani take TT tricolore". Cyclingnews.com. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2007/jun07/italy07/italy071. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 
2. ^ "Ascani faces suspension for EPO". Cyclingnews.com. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/oct07/oct06news. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 

External links

• Fan website
• Marco Pinotti profile at Cycling Archives

Persondata
Name	Pinotti, Marco
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1976-02-25
Place of birth	Osio Sotto, Lombardy, Italy
Date of death
Place of death