Marco Velo

Marco Velo

Personal information
Full name	Marco Velo
Born	March 9, 1974 (1974-03-09) (age 37)  Italy
Height	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 2009–2010	Brescialat Mercatone Uno Fassa Bortolo Milram Quick Step
Major wins
GP William Tell (1998) GP Llodio (1999)
Infobox last updated on August 19, 2007

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

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

1. ^ Velo wants to follow Tosatto
2. ^ Velo confirms with Domina Vacanze
3. ^ Petacchi & Zabel to new German/Italian team?
4. ^ Quick Step signings
5. ^ Marco Velo profile at Cycling Archives

External links

• Personal website (Italian)
• Profile at Team Milram official website

Persondata
Name	Velo, Marco
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1974-03-09
Place of birth	Brescia, Italy
Date of death
Place of death