Cesare Benedetti

Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian-born Polish former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2024, spending his entire career with .

Career Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the team.

Benedetti, and , made their Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing, by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race. Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after 's Miguel Ángel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage.

He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta a España.

Benedetti took his first individual professional victory at stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Having been part of a 25-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, he took the stage win leading a small group sprint in a late comeback after having been dropped in the last hill climb.

Personal life Benedetti's wife is Polish. He is fluent in Polish and was granted Polish citizenship in April 2021.

During the 2021 season, Benedetti started competing under a Polish licence.

Major results

2005 6th Overall Giro della Lunigiana 2007 2nd Gran Premio Sportivi Podenzano 3rd Trofeo Città di Brescia 3rd Trofeo FTP Tapparo 4th Gran Premio Industria Commercio Artigianato – Botticino 4th Targa d'Oro Città di Legnano 9th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto 2008 1st Trofeo Edil C 2nd Coppa Stignani 2nd Trofeo Filtri 3rd Milano–Busseto 4th Coppa Caduti di Reda 5th Trofeo G.S. Gavardo Tecmor 5th Medaglia Oro Angelo Fumagalli 9th GP Città di Felino 2009 2nd Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza 3rd Gran Premio San Luigi 6th Overall Girobio 8th Città di Conegliano 9th GP Inda 10th Trofeo Eco del Chisone 2010 1st Plombières 8th Memorial Van Coningsloo 2011 8th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich 2012 1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2014 9th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake 2015 Giro del Trentino 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 2016 1st Mountains classification, Tirreno–Adriatico 7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 10th Rudi Altig Race 2017 Giro d'Italia Held after Stage 1 2018 3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska 2019 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Giro d'Italia 107 — — — — 115 108 74 94 103 120 102 Tour de France — — — — 128 — — — — — — — Vuelta a España — — — — 93 DNF — — — 107 — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish