Alessandro De Marchi

Alessandro De Marchi (born 19 May 1986) is a retired Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who most lately rode for UCI WorldTeam .

Career Born in San Daniele del Friuli, De Marchi has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, joining the squad after a stagiaire spell with the team at the end of the 2010 season.

In the 2012 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi twice featured in a breakaway, during the fifth and fourteenth stages. In the latter stage, De Marchi made it to the end of the stage with the breakaway and finished third, behind Andrey Amador and Jan Bárta; the result came on his 26th birthday.

In the 2014 Tour de France, De Marchi was twice declared the 'most combative' rider of a stage, and earned the Tour's overall combativity award. De Marchi claimed his first Grand Tour stage win on Stage 7 of the 2014 Vuelta a España via an early breakaway and he finished solo.

announced that De Marchi would be joining them for the 2015 season.

In September 2020, De Marchi signed a two-year contract with the team.

After a strong result in stage 4 of the 2021 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi wore the pink leader's jersey for the following 2 stages. Early in stage 12 of the same race, De Marchi crashed and was taken away in an ambulance. His team later reported that he had broken his right collarbone, six ribs and his first two thoracic vertebrae.

Major results Gravel 2022 7th UCI World Championships 2023 9th UCI World Championships

Road

2008 1st GP Folignano 6th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin 10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2009 4th Ruota d'Oro 4th Zagreb–Ljubljana 7th Gran Premio di Poggiana 8th Giro del Casentino 2010 3rd Overall Tour of Romania 2011 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 7th Giro dell'Appennino 2013 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 8 Critérium du Dauphiné 4th Road race, National Championships 6th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia 2014 (1) 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España

9th Overall Tour des Fjords Tour de France

2015 (1) Vuelta a España 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 14 2016 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico 6th Overall Tour La Provence 9th Giro di Lombardia 2017 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2018 (2) 1st Giro dell'Emilia 1st Stage 11 Vuelta a España 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 4th Time trial, National Championships 2019 3rd Time trial, National Championships 7th Amstel Gold Race 2020 2nd Time trial, National Championships 9th Gran Trittico Lombardo 2021 (1)

1st Tre Valli Varesine

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2nd Giro della Toscana 3rd Chrono des Nations 4th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine Giro d'Italia

2022 5th Giro del Veneto

2024 (1) 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Alps

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track 2007

Athens Open Balkan Championship 1st Team pursuit 3rd Individual pursuit 2011 National Championships

2nd Individual pursuit