Maurizio Fondriest

Maurizio Fondriest (born 15 January 1965) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist. He won the road race at the 1988 World Cycling Championships, and the UCI Road World Cup in 1991 and 1993.

Career Born in Cles, Trentino, Fondriest turned professional in 1987 with the Ecoflam Team and that year had his first professional victory in Lerida during a stage of the Vuelta a Catalunya. He subsequently rode for Alfa-Lum in 1988. That year he also won stages in the Tour de Suisse and Tirreno–Adriatico and finished second behind Laurent Fignon at the 1988 Milan-San Remo.

Later that year, he won the 1988 World Cycling Championships in Rome at the age of 23 years-old, one of the youngest ever winners, taking advantage of a crash involving his breakaway companions Steve Bauer of Canada and Belgian Claude Criquielion. He missed the Giro d'Italia that year with injury and his team opted out of the Tour de France but in August he placed third overall at the 1990 Tour of Britain, winning one stage but being active enough in others to win the points classification. Later that year he finished third in a small group behind Rolf Sørensen and Phil Anderson at the finish of Paris–Tours.

From 1991, he left Italy and began riding for Panasonic.

In 1993, riding for the Lampre team, he won Milan–San Remo, La Flèche Wallonne, the Züri-Metzgete, the Giro dell'Emilia, the general classification and two stages of Tirreno–Adriatico, three stages and the general classification of the Grand Prix du Midi Libre, a stage in the Giro d'Italia, and the overall World Cup.

Major results

1985 1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia 1st Stage 8 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia 1986 1st GP di Poggiana 1st Circuito Belvedere 1st Coppa Città di San Daniele 1987 1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya 3rd Paris–Tours 3rd Coppa Bernocchi 3rd Giro di Romagna 3rd Memorial Gastone Nencini 6th Giro dell'Emilia 6th Milano–Torino 7th Coppa Placci 8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 1988

1st GP Industria & Commercio di Prato 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 1a Cronostaffetta 2nd Milan–San Remo 2nd Coppa Bernocchi 2nd Giro dell'Emilia 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Giro di Campania 3rd Coppa Placci 3rd Giro di Romagna 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 4 6th Overall Tour of Belgium 6th Firenze–Pistoia 8th G.P. Camaiore 1989 1st Giro di Toscana 1st Coppa Sabatini 1st Stage 1a Cronostaffetta 2nd Wincanton Classic 2nd Giro del Friuli 2nd G.P. Camaiore 2nd Giro del Veneto 2nd Giro dell'Emilia 2nd Trofeo Baracchi 3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 3rd Firenze–Pistoia 6th Giro di Romagna 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 10th Züri-Metzgete 1990 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni 1st Giro del Lazio 1st Stage 2 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 3rd Overall Tour of Britain 1st Stage 6 3rd Paris–Tours 5th Milan–San Remo 5th Tour of Flanders 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 9th Milano–Torino 1991

Volta a Catalunya 1st Stages 3a & 3b 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2nd Amstel Gold Race 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián 3rd Brabantse Pijl 4th Züri-Metzgete 4th Grand Prix des Nations 4th Firenze–Pistoia 5th Wincanton Classic 7th GP des Amériques 1992 1st Trofeo Melinda 1st Stage 5b Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía 2nd Giro del Lazio 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Giro di Campania 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami 4th Tour of Flanders 7th GP des Amériques 7th Milano–Torino 9th Paris–Tours 9th Coppa Placci 1993

1st Milan–San Remo 1st La Flèche Wallonne 1st Züri-Metzgete 1st Giro dell'Emilia 1st Firenze–Pistoia 1st Challenge San Silvestro d'Oro 1st Challenge Giglio d'Oro 1st Baden-Baden 1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stages 2 & 4 1st Overall Giro del Trentino 1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 1st Overall GP du Midi-Libre 1st Stages 2, 3 & 5 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïch 1st Stages 1a & 1b (ITT) 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía 1st Stage 5 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya 1st Prologue & Stage 6 (ITT) 2nd Paris–Tours 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 3rd Wincanton Classic 3rd Millemetri del Corso di Mestre 4th Amstel Gold Race 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 7th Grand Prix des Nations 8th Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1b (ITT) 8th Tour of Flanders 1994 1st Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Stages 2 & 6 1st Overall Tour of Britain 1st Stages 1 & 3a (ITT) 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 1st Giro del Lazio 1st Coppa Sabatini 2nd Giro dell'Emilia 3rd Züri-Metzgete 3rd Firenze–Pistoia 5th Giro di Lombardia 7th Milano–Torino 1995 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia 1st Prologue Volta a Catalunya 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 2nd La Flèche Wallonne 2nd Giro di Romagna 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia 5th G.P. Camaiore 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm 8th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde 1st Stage 3b (ITT) 8th Wincanton Classic 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 9th Züri-Metzgete 1996 1st Stage 3b KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde (ITT) 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Stage 8 3rd La Flèche Wallonne 3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna 4th Time trial, Olympic Games 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm 9th Züri-Metzgete 1997 1st Stage 2 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 4th Overall Tour du Limousin 6th Trofeo Melinda

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish