# Cesare Benedetti

Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian-born Polish former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2024, spending his entire career with Bora–Hansgrohe.

## Career

Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the Team NetApp team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the Liquigas team.
Benedetti, and Team NetApp, made their Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing, by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race. Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela's Miguel Ángel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage.
He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta a España.
Benedetti took his first individual professional victory at stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Having been part of a 25-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, he took the stage win leading a small group sprint in a late comeback after having been dropped in the last hill climb.

## Personal life

Benedetti's wife is Polish. He is fluent in Polish and was granted Polish citizenship in April 2021.
During the 2021 season, Benedetti started competing under a Polish licence.

## Major results
### 2005

    6th Overall Giro della Lunigiana

### 2007

    2nd Gran Premio Sportivi Podenzano
    3rd Trofeo Città di Brescia
    3rd Trofeo FTP Tapparo
    4th Gran Premio Industria Commercio Artigianato – Botticino
    4th Targa d'Oro Città di Legnano
    9th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto

### 2008

    1st Trofeo Edil C
    2nd Coppa Stignani
    2nd Trofeo Filtri
    3rd Milano–Busseto
    4th Coppa Caduti di Reda
    5th Trofeo G.S. Gavardo Tecmor
    5th Medaglia Oro Angelo Fumagalli
    9th GP Città di Felino

### 2009

    2nd Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
    3rd Gran Premio San Luigi
    6th Overall Girobio
    8th Città di Conegliano
    9th GP Inda
    10th Trofeo Eco del Chisone

### 2010

    1st Plombières
    8th Memorial Van Coningsloo

### 2011

    8th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich

### 2012

    1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

### 2014

    9th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake

### 2015

    Giro del Trentino
       1st Sprints classification
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)

### 2016

    1st Mountains classification, Tirreno–Adriatico
    7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    10th Rudi Altig Race

### 2017

    Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stage 1

### 2018

    3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska

### 2019

    1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | 107 | — | — | — | — | 115 | 108 | 74 | 94 | 103 | 120 | 102 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 128 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | 93 | DNF | — | — | — | 107 | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |