- Marco Velo
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Marco Velo Personal information Full name Marco Velo Born March 9, 1974
ItalyHeight 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) Weight 74 kg (160 lb) Team information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 1996–1997
1998–2001
2002–2005
2006–2008
2009–2010Brescialat
Mercatone Uno
Fassa Bortolo
Milram
Quick StepMajor wins GP William Tell (1998)
GP Llodio (1999)Infobox last updated on
August 19, 2007Marco Velo (born March 9, 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
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Professional career
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 after all.[4]
Palmares
In his career, Velo won:[5]
- 1997
- stage, Giro del Trentino
- 1998
- Coppe della Nazioni
- stage, overall, points & combination competition GP Tell
- Firenze-Pistoia
- National Time Trial Championship
- 1999
- Firenze-Pistoia
- GP Llodio
- National Time Trial Championship
- 2000
- National Time Trial Championship
- 2006
- Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi)
Notes and references
External links
Categories:- Italian cyclists
- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Brescia
- Italian cycling biography stubs
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