Davide Appollonio

Davide Appollonio (born 2 June 1989) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team .

Career Born in Isernia, Appollonio first made an impression in the professional ranks riding as a stagiaire for during the latter part of 2009, before signing for the team as a neo-pro for the 2010 season.

He joined for the 2011 season, picking up his first win for the team on the 3rd stage of the Tour de Luxembourg, and then his first overall Sprints competition the following day. Appollonio left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards. In October 2014 he announced that he would join for 2015, the first time Appollonio had joined an Italian professional cycling team.

On 30 June 2015 Appollonio gave an adverse analytical finding for EPO, on 14 June – two weeks after completing the Giro d'Italia, and was provisionally suspended. He was suspended for four years, and returned to the peloton with at the 2019 Volta a Portugal; he won the opening road stage of the race.

Major results

2009 5th Gran Premio della Liberazione 6th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto 2010 1st Stage 4 Tour du Limousin 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies 2nd Tour de Vendée 5th Clásica de Almería 7th Coppa Sabatini 10th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 2011 Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 3 1st Stage 1 Tour du Poitou-Charentes 7th Overall Ster ZLM Toer 2012 4th London Nocturne 2013 5th Paris–Bourges 2014 2nd Roma Maxima 6th Scheldeprijs 2015

3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 2019 1st Stage 1 Volta a Portugal

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish