Maximilian Sciandri

Maximilian Sciandri (born 15 February 1967) is a retired British road racing cyclist of Italian descent. He competed as an Italian national up to February 1995, then took British citizenship. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA. He was a professional rider from 1989 to 2004. Sciandri subsequently worked for the as a Directeur sportif from 2011 to 2018, having previously ridden for team manager Jim Ochowicz at the Motorola team in the 1990s. Prior to joining BMC he worked with British Cycling, helping to establish their base in Quarrata, and developing riders such as Mark Cavendish and Geraint Thomas. In October 2018 it emerged that Sciandri would join the as a directeur sportif from the 2019 season.

Major results

1989 1st Giro della Romagna 2nd Giro del Lazio 1990 Vuelta a Aragón 1st Stages 2, 3a, 4, 5 & 6 1st Giro della Romagna 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 1991 1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne 1st Stage 1a 3rd Overall Settimana Siciliana 1992

1st Stage 2 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 5 Tour de Romandie 2nd Paris–Camembert 1993

1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Giro del Veneto 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Coppa Placci 1st Stage 2 Settimana Sciliana 3rd UCI Road World Cup 3rd Milan–San Remo 3rd Giro di Lombardia 5th Tour of Flanders 5th Amstel Gold Race 1994 1st Stage 16 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino 2nd Giro del Lazio 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 8th Gent–Wevelgem 1995 1st Stage 11 Tour de France 1st Leeds International Classic 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 3a Three Days of De Panne 7th Clásica de San Sebastián 8th UCI Road World Cup 9th Tour of Flanders 1996 1st Stage 8 Paris–Nice 2nd Leeds International Classic

4th Milan–San Remo 4th Giro del Veneto 1997 2nd Paris–Tours 2nd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 2nd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato 2nd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 6th Rochester International Classic 7th UCI Road World Cup 9th Brabantse Pijl 1998 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Stages 1 & 5 3rd Tre Valli Varesine 6th Clásica de San Sebastián 1999 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies 4th Coppa Sabatini 8th Clásica de San Sebastián 8th Milano–Torino 2000 1st Giro del Lazio 1st Stage 5 Rapport Tour 2001 4th Giro del Lazio 7th Tour of Flanders 7th Giro di Lombardia 7th Classic Haribo