Marco Pinotti

Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist, Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013).

Career As an amateur he won 28 races before turning professional in 1999 with the team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.

In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.

The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.

Pinotti joined the then newly formed Spanish team team in 2005. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey. Pinotti retained the title in 2008.

At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Pinotti placed second in stage six to Spoleto and took over the leader's pink jersey. He held it for four stages. In 2008, he won the final stage time trial, and again in 2012. In 2009 and 2011, he help his teams win the team time trial. The result in 2011 helped him take over the pink jersey for one day.

In 2008, Pinotti joined team Highroad, which became Columbia HighRoad in 2009 and HTC-Columbia in 2010.

Pinotti joined the for 2012 following the disbanding of the team. At the end of the year, he released a book, Il Mestiere Del Ciclista Una Vita In Bicicletta (The Cycling Professor).

In October 2013 Pinotti announced that he would retire from racing after competing in the Tour of Beijing and Chrono des Nations, transitioning to a position in the Sports Science division of .

Career achievements Major results

1999 7th Firenze–Pistoia 2000 1st Stage 5 Tour de Pologne 2nd Duo Normand (with László Bodrogi) 4th Giro di Toscana 7th Grand Prix des Nations 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 2001 9th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 2002 6th Firenze–Pistoia 2003 Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stage 4 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 10th Overall Peace Race 2004 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 6th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 8th Giro della Romagna 10th Overall Ronde van Nederland 10th Chrono des Herbiers 2005

4th Firenze–Pistoia 3rd Overall Tour de Georgia 8th Chrono des Herbiers 2006 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 8th Overall Tour de Georgia 2007

4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami Giro d'Italia

2008

1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia 2nd Firenze–Pistoia 2nd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie 4th Chrono des Nations 9th Overall Danmark Rundt 2009

1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour de Romandie 3rd Overall Tour of Missouri 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 5th Overall Tour of Ireland 6th Overall Sachsen Tour 9th Clásica de San Sebastián 2010

4th Overall Tour of Oman 7th Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 9th Overall Giro d'Italia 2011 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1 (TTT)

4th Overall Tour de Romandie 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 2012 1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 5th Time trial, Olympic Games 6th Overall Tour of Austria 1st Stage 7 (ITT) 9th Overall Giro del Trentino 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 2013

4th Chrono des Nations 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

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