Italian cyclist

Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist, Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013).

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Career achievements
  • 2.1 Major results
• 3 Notes and references
• 4 External links

Career

As an amateur he won 28 races before turning professional in 1999 with the Lampre–Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and 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 compe*ion in April 2002.

The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and the King of the Mountains cl*ification. 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 but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey. Pinotti retained the *le in 2008.

At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Pinotti placed second in stage six to Spoleto and took over the leader's pink jersey. He held it for four stages. In 2008, he won the final stage time trial, and again in 2012. In 2009 and 2011, he help his teams win the team time trial. The result in 2011 helped him take over the pink jersey for one day.

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

Pinotti joined the BMC Racing Team for 2012 following the disbanding of the HTC–Highroad team. At the end of the year, he released a book, Il Mestiere Del Ciclista Una Vita In Bicicletta (The Cycling Professor).

In October 2013 Pinotti announced that he would retire from racing after competing in the Tour of Beijing and Chrono des Nations, transitioning to a position in the Sports Science division of BMC Racing Team.

Career achievements

Major results

19997th Firenze–Pistoia20001st Stage 5 Tour de Pologne2nd Duo Normand (with László Bodrogi)4th Giro di Toscana7th Grand Prix des Nations9th Overall Ronde van Nederland10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships20019th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore20026th Firenze–Pistoia2003Tour of the Basque Country1st Mountains cl*ification1st Stage 49th Overall Tour de Luxembourg10th Overall Peace Race20043rd Time trial, National Road Championships6th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx8th Giro della Romagna10th Overall Ronde van Nederland10th Chrono des Herbiers20051st Time trial, National Road Championships4th Firenze–Pistoia7th Overall Tour de Georgia8th Chrono des Herbiers20062nd Time trial, National Road Championships8th Overall Tour de Georgia20071st Time trial, National Road Championships4th Grand Prix Pino CeramiGiro d'ItaliaHeld after Stages 6–920081st Time trial, National Road Championships1st Overall Tour of Ireland1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia2nd Firenze–Pistoia2nd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald3rd Overall Tour de Romandie4th Chrono des Nations9th Overall Danmark Rundt20091st Time trial, National Road Championships1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour de Romandie3rd Overall Tour of Missouri5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships5th Overall Tour of Ireland6th Overall Sachsen Tour9th Clásica de San Sebastián20101st Time trial, National Road Championships4th Overall Tour of Oman7th Overall Tour de Romandie1st Prologue5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country9th Overall Giro d'Italia2011Giro d'Italia1st Stage 1 (TTT)Held after Stage 14th Overall Tour de Romandie6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico20121st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia1st Sprints cl*ification Tour of the Basque Country2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships3rd Time trial, National Road Championships5th Time trial, Olympic Games6th Overall Tour of Austria1st Stage 7 (ITT)9th Overall Giro del Trentino1st Stage 1 (TTT)20131st Time trial, National Road Championships4th Chrono des Nations7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Pinotti competing in the 2012 Olympics time trial in London

Notes and references

External links

Media related to Marco Pinotti at Wikimedia Commons

• Fan website
• Marco Pinotti at Cycling Archives