# Giovanni Visconti (cyclist)

Giovanni Visconti (born 13 January 1983) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam VF Group–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè.

## Professional career
### Early career

Born in Turin, Visconti won his first race in 2006 at the Coppa Sabatini. One year later, he won the Italian National Road Race Championships on 1 July 2007, beating Paolo Bossoni (Lampre–Fondital) and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) at the end in a sprint. At 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) to go Rebellin accelerated and left the main field, closely followed by Visconti, Bossoni, and Christian Murro (Tenax–Menikini). The four were able to keep the peloton away until the final meters.
In 2010, Visconti won the 2.HC Tour of Turkey overall classification after pocketing two stages along the way. He stood on the podium with Tejay van Garderen of Team HTC–Columbia and David Moncoutié of Cofidis. Racing himself for ISD–NERI at the time, he said after the win: "Look at the teams we've beaten: HTC-Columbia and Cofidis, not bad for a team like ours, isn't it?"

### Movistar Team (2012–16)

In April 2012, now riding for Movistar Team, Visconti took his first victory of the season at the Klasika Primavera by outsprinting his own teammate Alejandro Valverde and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Igor Antón. Four Movistar Team riders finished in the first five positions. In May, Visconti had to withdraw from the Giro d'Italia during the fifteenth stage due to shortness of breath. He was told by his entourage that the event had all the symptoms of a panic attack. He came back to racing and signed a victory at the Circuito de Getxo, where his puncheur qualities served him well on the final climb, where he outsprinted Danilo Di Luca. He went to the Vuelta a Burgos and finished seventh overall thanks to consistent placings, especially in the queen stage to the Lagunas de Neila where he was eighth. In December, it has been announced by the Italian National Olympic Committee that Visconti was suspended for 3 months and would have to pay a 10,000 Euros fine since he worked with doctor Michele Ferrari, who had been banned for life for doping athletes. Visconti has denied Ferrari had ever supplied him with doping products. The suspension started retroactively on 10 October 2012.
In 2015, Visconti won the best climber's jersey of the Giro d'Italia, thanks to attacks in the final stages of the race. He qualified his conquest of the blue jersey as "a consolation" since he was going for stage wins that did not materialize during those attacks. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.

## Major results
### 2003

    1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st GP Inda-Trofeo Aras Frattini
    1st Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
    1st GP Kranj
    5th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo

### 2004

    1st GP Kranj
    1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
    Giro delle Regioni
       1st Stages 2 & 4b
    2nd Menton–Savona
    7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    8th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo

### 2005

    3rd Firenze–Pistoia
    4th Overall Uniqa Classic
    4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    4th Giro del Veneto
    4th Coppa Placci
    5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    7th Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo
    8th Trofeo Melinda
    10th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

### 2006

    1st Coppa Sabatini
    2nd Trofeo Melinda
    2nd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
    4th Trofeo Laigueglia
    4th Coppa Placci
    5th Overall Brixia Tour
    8th Memorial Marco Pantani

### 2007

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Coppa Sabatini
    1st Stage 2a Brixia Tour
    3rd Firenze–Pistoia
    4th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    9th Clásica de San Sebastián
    9th Giro di Lombardia

### 2008

    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd Trofeo Pollença
    2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie
    2nd Memorial Cimurri
    2nd Japan Cup
    4th Brabantse Pijl
    4th Giro di Lombardia
    5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    9th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2009

    1st UCI Europe Tour
    1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    1st Trofeo Melinda
    1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
    1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia
    2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
    2nd Coppa Sabatini
    2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
    3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
    5th Overall Giro di Sardegna
    5th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
       1st Stage 1b (TTT)
    6th Giro del Friuli
    6th Monte Paschi Strade Bianche
    6th Giro della Romagna
    6th Memorial Cimurri
    8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
    8th Japan Cup
    9th Coppa Bernocchi
    9th Giro del Veneto

### 2010

    1st UCI Europe Tour
    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour of Turkey
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    1st Classica Sarda
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Brixia Tour
    2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
    2nd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
    3rd Trofeo Melinda
    3rd Giro della Romagna
    3rd Coppa Sabatini
    4th Giro dell'Appennino
    4th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
    5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    7th Tre Valli Varesine
    8th Trofeo Matteotti
    10th Overall Giro di Sardegna

### 2011

    1st UCI Europe Tour
    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
    1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
    1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
    2nd Overall Giro di Padania
    2nd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    3rd Overall Tour of Oman
    3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
    3rd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
    3rd Coppa Bernocchi
    4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 5
    4th Memorial Marco Pantani
    4th Coppa Sabatini
    6th Hel van het Mergelland
    6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    7th Giro di Lombardia
    8th Montepaschi Strade Bianche
    8th Giro dell'Appennino

### 2012

    1st Klasika Primavera
    1st Circuito de Getxo
    3rd Memorial Marco Pantani
    4th Coppa Sabatini
    5th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
    7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    7th Clásica de Almería
    7th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    7th Giro dell'Emilia
    8th Coppa Bernocchi
    9th Gran Piemonte
    10th Gent–Wevelgem

### 2013

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 15 & 17
    7th Roma Maxima
    9th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

### 2014

    7th Circuito de Getxo
    9th Clásica de San Sebastián

### 2015

    1st Mountains classification, Giro d'Italia
    2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
    6th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
    8th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer
    8th Klasika Primavera
    8th Milano–Torino

### 2016

    1st Klasika Primavera
    3rd Overall Giro di Toscana
       1st Stage 1
    3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    4th GP Miguel Induráin
    4th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    5th Tre Valli Varesine
    8th Overall Tour du Haut Var
    8th Amstel Gold Race
    10th Trofeo Pollenca-Port de Andratx

### 2017

    1st Giro dell'Emilia
    2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
    2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
    9th Overall Tour of Oman

### 2018

    Tour of Austria
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2, 4 & 8
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd Trofeo Matteotti
    4th Giro della Toscana
    5th Strade Bianche
    5th Gran Premio di Lugano
    6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    9th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2019

    1st Giro della Toscana
    1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria
    1st Mountains classification, Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
       1st Stage 4
    2nd Tre Valli Varesine
    5th Overall Giro di Sicilia
    5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
    5th Coppa Agostoni
    5th La Drôme Classic
    6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    6th Memorial Marco Pantani
    8th Gran Piemonte

### 2020

    9th Giro dell'Emilia
    9th Giro dell'Appennino
    Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stages 15–16

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Giro d'Italia | 77 | 42 | 76 | — | 49 | DNF | 35 | — | 18 | 13 | DNF | 38 | — | DNF | 95 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | — | 46 | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |