Matteo Priamo

Matteo Priamo (born 20 March 1982 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, previously of UCI Professional Continental team .

Priamo's teammate Emanuele Sella, who had won three stages and the mountains classification at the 2008 Giro d'Italia, tested positive for methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (better known as Mircera, an erythropoietin derivative) at an out-of-competition control run by the UCI. After confessing to his doping he named Priamo as his supplier. Though the Italian National Anti-Doping tribunal originally exonerated Priamo, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled, upon appeal by the Italian National Olympic Committee, that he should be suspended for four years.

Palmarès

2004 5th Gran Premio della Liberazione 2005 1st GP di Poggiana 1st Trofeo G. Bianchin 1st GP Citta' di Felino 2nd Trofeo Zsšdi 3rd Gran Premio San Giuseppe 2007 1st Stage 2 Circuit de Lorraine 2nd Giro di Toscana 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 2008 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 1st Stage 3 & 5