Marco Velo

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Marco Velo
Marco Velo - Tour de Romandie 2010, Stage 3.jpg
Personal information
Full nameMarco Velo
Born (1974-03-09) 9 March 1974 (age 47)
Brescia, Italy
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1996–1997Brescialat
1998–2001Mercatone Uno
2002–2005Fassa Bortolo
2006–2008Milram
2009–2010Quick Step
Major wins
GP William Tell (1998)
GP Llodio (1999)

Marco Velo (born 9 March 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]

Major results[]

In his career, Velo won:[5]

1997
stage, Giro del Trentino
1998
stage, overall, points & combination competition GP Tell
Firenze–Pistoia
Jersey italianflag.svg National Time Trial Championship
1999
Firenze–Pistoia
GP Llodio
Jersey italianflag.svg National Time Trial Championship
2000
Jersey italianflag.svg National Time Trial Championship
2006
(with Fabio Sacchi)

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