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Italian road bicycle racer
Giovanni Visconti (born 13 January 1983) is a former Italian professional
road racing cyclist , who last rode for
UCI ProTeam
VF Group–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè .
[5]
[6]
Professional career
Early career
Visconti, wearing the
Italian national champion's jersey , at the
2008 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Born in
Turin , Visconti won his first race in 2006 at the Coppa Sabatini. One year later, he won the
Italian National Road Race Championships on 1 July 2007, beating
Paolo Bossoni (
Lampre–Fondital ) and
Davide Rebellin (
Gerolsteiner ) at the end in a sprint. At 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) to go Rebellin accelerated and left the main field, closely followed by Visconti, Bossoni, and
Christian Murro (Tenax–Menikini). The four were able to keep the
peloton away until the final meters.
In 2010, Visconti won the
2.HC
Tour of Turkey overall classification after pocketing two stages along the way. He stood on the podium with
Tejay van Garderen of
Team HTC–Columbia and
David Moncoutié of
Cofidis . Racing himself for
ISD–NERI at the time, he said after the win: "Look at the teams we've beaten: HTC-Columbia and Cofidis, not bad for a team like ours, isn't it?"
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Movistar Team (2012–16)
In April 2012, now riding for
Movistar Team , Visconti took his first victory of the season at the
Klasika Primavera by outsprinting his own teammate
Alejandro Valverde and
Euskaltel–Euskadi 's
Igor Antón . Four Movistar Team riders finished in the first five positions.
[8] In May, Visconti had to withdraw from the
Giro d'Italia during the fifteenth stage due to shortness of breath. He was told by his entourage that the event had all the symptoms of a
panic attack .
[9] He came back to racing and signed a victory at the
Circuito de Getxo , where his puncheur qualities served him well on the final climb, where he outsprinted
Danilo Di Luca .
[10] He went to the
Vuelta a Burgos and finished seventh overall thanks to consistent placings, especially in the
queen stage to the Lagunas de Neila where he was eighth.
[11] In December, it has been announced by the
Italian National Olympic Committee that Visconti was suspended for 3 months and would have to pay a 10,000 Euros fine since he worked with doctor
Michele Ferrari , who had been banned for life for doping athletes. Visconti has denied Ferrari had ever supplied him with doping products. The suspension started retroactively on 10 October 2012.
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In 2015, Visconti won the best climber's jersey of the
Giro d'Italia , thanks to attacks in the final stages of the race. He qualified his conquest of the blue jersey as "a consolation" since he was going for stage wins that did not materialize during those attacks.
[13] He was named in the start list for the
2015 Vuelta a España .
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Major results
2003
1st
Road race,
UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
1st
Road race , National Under-23 Road Championships
1st GP Inda-Trofeo Aras Frattini
1st
Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
1st
GP Kranj
5th
Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2004
1st
GP Kranj
1st
Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
Giro delle Regioni
1st Stages 2 & 4b
2nd Menton–Savona
7th Road race,
UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
8th
Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2005
3rd
Firenze–Pistoia
4th Overall
Uniqa Classic
4th
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
4th
Giro del Veneto
4th
Coppa Placci
5th
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
7th
Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo
8th
Trofeo Melinda
10th
Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
2006
1st
Coppa Sabatini
2nd
Trofeo Melinda
2nd
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
4th
Trofeo Laigueglia
4th
Coppa Placci
5th Overall
Brixia Tour
8th
Memorial Marco Pantani
2007
1st
Road race , National Road Championships
1st
Coppa Sabatini
1st Stage 2a
Brixia Tour
3rd
Firenze–Pistoia
4th
Grand Prix de Wallonie
9th
Clásica de San Sebastián
9th
Giro di Lombardia
2008
1st
Grand Prix de Fourmies
1st Stage 3
Vuelta a Andalucía
2nd
Road race , National Road Championships
2nd
Trofeo Pollença
2nd
Grand Prix Pino Cerami
2nd
Grand Prix de Wallonie
2nd
Memorial Cimurri
2nd
Japan Cup
4th
Brabantse Pijl
4th
Giro di Lombardia
5th
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
9th
Tre Valli Varesine
2009
1st
UCI Europe Tour
1st
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
1st
Trofeo Melinda
1st
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
1st Stage 2
Tour of Slovenia
2nd
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2nd
Coppa Sabatini
2nd
Memorial Marco Pantani
3rd
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
5th Overall
Giro di Sardegna
5th Overall
Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
1st Stage 1b (
TTT )
6th
Giro del Friuli
6th
Monte Paschi Strade Bianche
6th
Giro della Romagna
6th
Memorial Cimurri
8th
Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
8th
Japan Cup
9th
Coppa Bernocchi
9th
Giro del Veneto
2010
1st
UCI Europe Tour
1st
Road race , National Road Championships
1st
Overall
Tour of Turkey
1st Stages 3 & 4
1st
Classica Sarda
1st Stage 1
Tour de Luxembourg
1st Stage 1 (
TTT )
Brixia Tour
2nd Overall
Tour of Slovenia
2nd
Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
3rd
Trofeo Melinda
3rd
Giro della Romagna
3rd
Coppa Sabatini
4th
Giro dell'Appennino
4th
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
5th
Grand Prix de Wallonie
7th
Tre Valli Varesine
8th
Trofeo Matteotti
10th Overall
Giro di Sardegna
2011
1st
UCI Europe Tour
1st
Road race , National Road Championships
1st
Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
1st
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
1st Stage 4
Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
2nd Overall
Giro di Padania
2nd
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2nd
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
3rd Overall
Tour of Oman
3rd
Gran Premio di Lugano
3rd
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
3rd
Coppa Bernocchi
4th Overall
Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
1st
Points classification
1st Stage 5
4th
Memorial Marco Pantani
4th
Coppa Sabatini
6th
Hel van het Mergelland
6th
Grand Prix Pino Cerami
7th
Giro di Lombardia
8th
Montepaschi Strade Bianche
8th
Giro dell'Appennino
2012
1st
Klasika Primavera
1st
Circuito de Getxo
3rd
Memorial Marco Pantani
4th
Coppa Sabatini
5th
Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
7th Overall
Vuelta a Burgos
7th
Clásica de Almería
7th
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
7th
Giro dell'Emilia
8th
Coppa Bernocchi
9th
Gran Piemonte
10th
Gent–Wevelgem
2013
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 15 & 17
7th
Roma Maxima
9th
Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
2014
7th
Circuito de Getxo
9th
Clásica de San Sebastián
2015
1st
Mountains classification ,
Giro d'Italia
2nd
Memorial Marco Pantani
6th
Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
8th
Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer
8th
Klasika Primavera
8th
Milano–Torino
2016
1st
Klasika Primavera
3rd Overall
Giro di Toscana
1st Stage 1
3rd
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
4th
GP Miguel Induráin
4th
Coppa Ugo Agostoni
5th
Tre Valli Varesine
8th Overall
Tour du Haut Var
8th
Amstel Gold Race
10th
Trofeo Pollenca-Port de Andratx
2017
1st
Giro dell'Emilia
2nd Overall
Tour of Slovenia
2nd Overall
Giro della Toscana
9th Overall
Tour of Oman
2018
Tour of Austria
1st
Points classification
1st Stages 2, 4 & 8
2nd
Road race , National Road Championships
2nd
Trofeo Matteotti
4th
Giro della Toscana
5th
Strade Bianche
5th
Gran Premio di Lugano
6th
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
9th
Tre Valli Varesine
2019
1st
Giro della Toscana
1st Stage 3
Tour of Austria
1st
Mountains classification,
Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2nd Overall
Tour of Slovenia
1st Stage 4
2nd
Tre Valli Varesine
5th Overall
Giro di Sicilia
5th Overall
Tour de Hongrie
5th
Coppa Agostoni
5th
La Drôme Classic
6th
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
6th
Memorial Marco Pantani
8th
Gran Piemonte
2020
9th
Giro dell'Emilia
9th
Giro dell'Appennino
Giro d'Italia
Held
after Stages 15–16
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Legend
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Did not compete
DNF
Did not finish
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