Enrico Gasparotto
 Gasparotto at the 2016 Tour of Britain | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Enrico Gasparotto |
| Nickname | Giallo |
| Born | 22 March 1982 Sacile, Italy |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | EF Education–NIPPO Development Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role |
|
| Rider type |
|
| Professional teams | |
| 2005–2007 | Liquigas–Bianchi |
| 2008 | Barloworld |
| 2009 | Lampre–NGC |
| 2010–2014 | Astana |
| 2015–2016 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert |
| 2017–2018 | Bahrain–Merida |
| 2019–2020 | Team Dimension Data[1][2] |
| Managerial team | |
| 2021– | Nippo–Provence–PTS Conti |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
One-day races and Classics Others
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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.[3] He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team EF Education–NIPPO Development Team.[4]
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 Classics 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,[5] and Gasparotto out-sprinted Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert and Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9]
Major results[]
- 2004
- 1st Stage 5 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- 3rd Gran Premio di Poggiana
- 2005
- 1st
Road race, Italian National Road Championships - 1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya
- 3rd Overall Uniqa Classic
- 5th Coppa Bernocchi
- 6th Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico
- 10th Paris–Tours
- 2006
- 1st Memorial Cimurri
- 3rd Coppa Sabatini
- 6th Scheldeprijs
- 2007
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- Held
after Stages 1 & 3
- 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 4th Brabantse Pijl
- Vuelta a Mallorca
- 5th Trofeo Mallorca
- 9th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 9th Memorial Cimurri
- 2008
- 1st
Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Giro della Romagna
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Coppa Placci
- 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
- 4th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
- 6th Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
- 7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 7th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 2009
- 1st
Sprints classification Tour de Suisse - 2nd Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
- 3rd Coppa Bernocchi
- 8th Memorial Cimurri
- 2010
- 1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 9th Montepaschi Strade Bianche
- 2011
- 4th Tre Valli Varesine
- 2012
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 7th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 2013
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 9th Amstel Gold Race
- 2014
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 9th Tre Valli Varesine
- 2015
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 9th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 2016
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 2nd Brabantse Pijl
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 2018
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
- 3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2019
- 7th Brabantse Pijl
- 9th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
- 10th La Flèche Wallonne
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
97 | 92 | 60 | DNF | — | 66 | — | 97 | — | — | 76 | — | 69 | — |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | 95 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 / Vuelta a España
|
— | — | 82 | 68 | 78 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 120 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References[]
- ^ "Dimension Data finalise 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Enrico Gasparotto calls time on 16-year career". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ "Nippo-Provence-PTS Conti". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "Freire says headwind blighted his chances of winning Amstel Gold Race". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 15 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Gasparotto wins Amstel stunner". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 15 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Maxim Iglinsky wins Liège – Bastogne – Li��ge". Velo News. VeloNews.com. 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Ben Atkins (19 August 2012). "Vuelta a Espana: Fractured collarbone for Enrico Gasparotto in team time trial crash". Velo Nation. Velo Nation LLC. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ^ "Enrico Gasparotto dedicates Amstel Gold win to Antoine Demoitié". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
External links[]
Media related to Enrico Gasparotto at Wikimedia Commons
- Enrico Gasparotto at ProCyclingStats
- Enrico Gasparotto at Trap-Friis.dk
- Palmares on Cycling Base
- 1982 births
- Living people
- People from Sacile
- Italian male cyclists
- Swiss male cyclists
- Sportspeople from Friuli-Venezia Giulia