About Ivan Quaranta
Born 1974. Ivan Quaranta is an Italian track cyclist and sport cyclist.
Ivan Quaranta (born 14 December 1974) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . During his career, he won six stages at the Giro d'Italia, between 1999 and 2001.
Career Born in Crema, Lombardy, Quaranta's most successful year was 1999, when he was riding for the team; he already had five wins to his credit leading up to the Giro d'Italia. He then won the first stage in a sprint finish, ahead of Mario Cipollini, significantly boosting his profile.
In 2003, Quaranta was hired by to replace Cipollini as the team's protected sprinter; he won sprints in lesser races such as the Brixia Tour and the Tour of Qatar. Saeco dropped Quaranta after a single season, subsequent to which he had negligible success. His final win was in the 2007 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda.
Quaranta retired from professional cycling after the 2008 season.
Major results
1997 3rd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt 10th Overall Giro di Puglia 1998 1st Stage 1 Tour de Normandie 1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour Tour de Serbie 1st Stages 1 & 7 1999 Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 1 & 11 1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne 1st Stage 1 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Abruzzo 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 2000 Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 1 & 10 Tour de Langkawi 1st Stages 7, 8 & 11 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda 2nd Memorial Fabio Casartelli 2001 Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 5 & 16 1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi 1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Netherlands 2002 1st Dwars door Gendringen 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 5 Tour of Sweden 1st Stage 2a Regio-Tour 2nd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie 2003 1st Stage 4 Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour 1st Stage 1 Brixia Tour 2004 1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda 9th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria 2007 1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
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Italian cyclist
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Ivan Quaranta was born on 14 December 1974 in Crema.
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Ivan Quaranta is a track cyclist and sport cyclist.
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Ivan Quaranta is Italian.
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