Italian-born Swiss road racing cyclist

Enrico Gasparotto (born 22 March 1982) is an Italian-born Swiss former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2020, for seven different teams. After retiring, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team EF Education–NIPPO Development Team in 2021 before joining Bora–Hansgrohe in a similar role the following year.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
    • 2.1.1 Cl*ics results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Born in Sacile, Gasparotto turned professional in 2005 with Liquigas–Bianchi and stayed with the team for three years. At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Gasparotto led his Liquigas squad to a stage 1 team time trial win and wore the pink jersey the following day.

Gasparotto achieved his first Cl*ics victory at the 2012 Amstel Gold Race; he won the race in an uphill finish, after Óscar Freire was caught 90:m (300:ft) before the finish line, and Gasparotto out-sprinted Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert and Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale. One week later, he took part in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, finishing third by beating a small group to the sprint in a race won by fellow Astana teammate, Maxim Iglinsky.

At the Vuelta a España, bad luck hit Gasparotto and the Astana squad on the very first stage, a 16.5:km (10.3:mi) team time trial held in Pamplona. His teammates Paolo Tiralongo, Alexsandr Dyachenko, Andrey Zeits and Gasparotto himself crashed in an accident that was not picked up by the television cameras. His teammates could pick themselves up and continue, as did Gasparotto, but it was revealed that his collarbone was fractured in three places and he had to abandon the Spanish race.

Gasparotto took a second Amstel Gold triumph when he won the 2016 edition of the race, defeating Michael Valgren in a two-up sprint after the pair broke away from the main group in the closing stages of the race. It was Gasparotto's first win since his 2012 victory, and he dedicated it to Antoine Demoitié, his teammate who had died after a crash at Gent–Wevelgem the previous month.

Major results

20041st Stage 5 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia3rd Gran Premio di Poggiana20051st Road race, Italian National Road Championships1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya3rd Overall Uniqa Cl*ic5th Coppa Bernocchi6th Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico10th Paris–Tours20061st Memorial Cimurri3rd Coppa Sabatini6th Scheldeprijs2007Giro d'Italia1st Stage 1 (TTT)Held after Stages 1 & 32nd Overall Danmark Rundt4th Brabantse PijlVuelta a Mallorca5th Trofeo Mallorca9th Trofeo Cala Millor9th Memorial Cimurri20081st Overall Ster Elektrotoer1st Stage 31st Giro della Romagna2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico2nd Coppa Placci3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne1st Stage 13rd Gran Premio di Lugano4th Trofeo Laigueglia5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli6th Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes7th Brabantse Pijl10th Overall Danmark Rundt20091st Sprints cl*ification, Tour de Suisse2nd Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto3rd Coppa Bernocchi8th Memorial Cimurri20101st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico3rd Amstel Gold Race9th Montepaschi Strade Bianche20114th Tre Valli Varesine20121st Amstel Gold Race3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège7th Trofeo Laigueglia20135th Giro di Lombardia6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal9th Amstel Gold Race20148th Amstel Gold Race8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal9th Tre Valli Varesine20158th Amstel Gold Race8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton9th Coppa Ugo Agostoni20161st Amstel Gold Race2nd Brabantse Pijl5th La Flèche Wallonne6th Overall Tour of Belgium20183rd Amstel Gold Race3rd Gran Premio di Lugano3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège20197th Brabantse Pijl9th Overall Arctic Race of Norway10th La Flèche Wallonne

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Cl*ics results

References

External links

Media related to Enrico Gasparotto at Wikimedia Commons

• Enrico Gasparotto at ProCyclingStats
• Enrico Gasparotto at trap-friis.dk
• Palmares on Cycling Base Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine