- Michele Bartoli
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Michele Bartoli 
Personal information Full name Michele Bartoli Born May 27, 1970
ItalyHeight 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) Weight 65 kg (140 lb; 10.2 st) Team information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Classics specialist Professional team(s) 1992–1995
1996–1997
1998
1999–2001
2002–2003
2004Mercatone Uno-Medeghini-Zucchini
MG-Technogym
Asics
Mapei
Fassa Bortolo
Team CSCMajor wins UCI Road World Cup (1997, 1998)
Giro d'Italia, 2 stages
Ronde van Vlaanderen (1996)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1997, 1998)
Giro di Lombardia (2002, 2003)
GP Ouest-France (2000)
Amstel Gold Race (2002)
La Flèche Wallonne (1999)
Tirreno–Adriatico (1999)
Züri-Metzgete (1998)
Omloop Het Volk (2001)Medal recordCompetitor for ItalyRoad bicycle racing World Championships Bronze 1996 Lugano Elite Men's Road Race Bronze 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Road Race Infobox last updated on
July 25, 2007Michele Bartoli (born Pisa 27 May 1970) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. He was a single-day race specialist, winning three of the five Monument races. Bartoli won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998.
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Biography
Bartoli turned professional in 1992 with Mercatone Uno-Medeghini-Zucchini and in 1995 moved to the MG-Technogym team of Giancarlo Ferretti. In 1998, Bartoli signed for Asics. In summer 1998, Bartoli joined Mapei. After the Tour de France, won by Marco Pantani, Mapei showed interest in contracting Pantani, and Asics went for another sponsor, but Bartoli left and joined Mapei from 1999 to 2001.[1]
In 1997 and 1998, Bartoli won UCI Road World Cup.[2][3] From 10 October 1998 to 6 June 1999, Bartoli led the UCI Road World Rankings.[4] During these years, Bartoli was helped by Paolo Bettini, with whom Bartoli had worked in the MG-Technogym and Asics teams. Bettini kept improving. After a crash in the 1999 Tour of Germany, Bartoli was injured and Bettini rose to prominence, winning Liège–Bastogne–Liège. From that moment, both demanded a leading role. Although they worked together at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the feud culminated in the 2001 world championship during which the two refused to collaborate, which contributed to Óscar Freire of Spain winning the world title.[5]
Bartoli left Mapei to re-join Ferretti at Fassa Bortolo for 2002-2003. In 2004, Bartoli moved to Team CSC.[6] In the 2004 Tour de France, Bartoli abandoned in the 18th stage, after being called back by manager Bjarne Riis from a break to protect his captain Ivan Basso.[7] Bartoli stopped racing after completing 2004 injured.[8] He said: "I just wasn't motivated to continue...I can't be a top level rider any more and that was a major influence on my decision, rather than my recent physical problems."[9]
Bartoli was one of the most successful classics riders of his time.[10] He won a variety of classics, starting with the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Omloop "Het Volk" in 1996 and 2001 respectively, and hilly races such as Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1997 and 1998, Züri-Metzgete in 1998, La Flèche Wallonne in 1999, and the Amstel Gold Race in 2002. He won the Giro di Lombardia in 2002 and 2003. He was national champion in 2000, and won short stage races such as the Tirreno–Adriatico, Tour de Reggio Calabria and Three Days of De Panne.
In the world championship he finished third in 1996 and 1998.
After-cycling career
In 2005 Bartoli gave his name to the Granfondo Michele Bartoli in the province of Lucca, with the start and finish in his hometown Montecarlo.[11] Bartoli is, with former cyclists Francesco Casagrande and Maximilian Sciandri, instructor of the Campagnolo Passion 2 Ride.[12]
Bartoli was linked by La Gazzetta dello Sport to the name "Sansone" on the database of Dr Eufemanio Fuentes in the Operación Puerto doping case. Sansone is reportedly the name of Bartoli's dog.[13]
Palmares
- 1993
- 1st Overall, Semaine Sicilienne
- 1st Stages 1
- 1st Stages 5
- 1994
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st Criterium d'Abruzzo
- 1st GP Pino Cerami
- 1st, Stage 14, Giro d'Italia
- 1995
- 1st Overall, Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stages 1
- 1st Stages 2
- 1996
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st GP de Fourmies
- 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 1st Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 1 Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1997
- Champion UCI Road World Cup
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st Stage 4, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5, Tour Méditerranéen
- Champion UCI Road World Cup
- 1998
- Champion UCI Road World Cup
- 1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 1st Giro della Romagna
- 1st Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 6 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1999
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 4 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2000
- 1st
Italian National Road Race Championship - 1st Stage 2, Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st GP Ouest-France
- 2001
- 1st Grand Prix de Camaiore
- 1st Omloop "Het Volk"
- 2001
- 2002
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Milano–Torino
- 1st Stage 2 Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 4
- 2003
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Stage 3, Tour de Wallonie
- 2004
References
- ^ "Bartoli and Asics - divorce!". cyclingnews.com. November 23, 1998. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/1998/nov98/nov23.shtml. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ UCI Road World Cup 1997 results
- ^ UCI Road World Cup 1998 Final standings
- ^ Historic data of the World Rankings & World Cup
- ^ "Men's World Champion profile: Paolo Bettini". Tour de France blog. July 23, 2004. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/worlds06/index.php?id=/features/2006/bettini_worlds06. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ "CSC Ready for Winning Season". CSC. January 17, 2004. http://www.csc.com/mms/cycling/en/ne/na/articleDetail.jsp?id=139. Retrieved 5 July 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "Stage 18 underway". Tour de France blog. April 9, 2004. http://www.tdfblog.com/2004/07/stage_18_underw.html. Retrieved 5 July 2007.
- ^ "Team CSC's Bartoli Ends His Cycling Career". CSC. November 24, 2004. http://www.csc.com/mms/cycling/en/ne/na/articleDetail.jsp?id=62. Retrieved 5 July 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "All hail to the warrior. Michele Bartoli bows out of cycling". cyclingnews.com. April 9, 2004. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2004/nov04/nov26news. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ "New tricks for an experienced pro". cyclingnews.com. April 9, 2004. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/worldcup04/roubaix04/?id=features/michele_bartoli. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ Official Granfondo Michel Bartoli site
- ^ Instructors of Passion2Ride
- ^ "Italian paper reports Bartoli is 'Sansone'". cyclingnews.com. May 15, 2007. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may25news2. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
External links
- Official website (under construction)
- Passion 2 Ride
- Palmares
- Tour de France results
- Palmares by cyclingbase.com
UCI Road World Cup, UCI ProTour and UCI World Tour winners UCI Road World Cup 1989 Sean Kelly · 1990 Gianni Bugno · 1991 Maurizio Fondriest · 1992 Olaf Ludwig · 1993 Maurizio Fondriest · 1994 Gianluca Bortolami · 1995 Johan Museeuw · 1996 Johan Museeuw · 1997 Michele Bartoli · 1998 Michele Bartoli · 1999 Andrei Tchmil · 2000 Erik Zabel · 2001 Erik Dekker · 2002 Paolo Bettini · 2003 Paolo Bettini · 2004 Paolo Bettini
UCI ProTour UCI World Tour 2009 Alberto Contador · 2010 Joaquim Rodríguez · 2011 Philippe Gilbert
Categories:- Italian cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- People from Pisa
- 1970 births
- Living people
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