# Marco Pinotti

Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist, Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013).

## Career

As an amateur he won 28 races before turning professional in 1999 with the Lampre–Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.
In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.
The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.
Pinotti joined the then newly formed Spanish team Saunier Duval–Prodir team in 2005. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey. Pinotti retained the title in 2008.
At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Pinotti placed second in stage six to Spoleto and took over the leader's pink jersey. He held it for four stages. In 2008, he won the final stage time trial, and again in 2012. In 2009 and 2011, he help his teams win the team time trial. The result in 2011 helped him take over the pink jersey for one day.
In 2008, Pinotti joined team Highroad, which became Columbia HighRoad in 2009 and HTC-Columbia in 2010.
Pinotti joined the BMC Racing Team for 2012 following the disbanding of the HTC–Highroad team. At the end of the year, he released a book, Il Mestiere Del Ciclista Una Vita In Bicicletta (The Cycling Professor).
In October 2013 Pinotti announced that he would retire from racing after competing in the Tour of Beijing and Chrono des Nations, transitioning to a position in the Sports Science division of BMC Racing Team.

## Career achievements
### Major results
#### 1999

    7th Firenze–Pistoia

#### 2000

    1st Stage 5 Tour de Pologne
    2nd Duo Normand (with László Bodrogi)
    4th Giro di Toscana
    7th Grand Prix des Nations
    9th Overall Ronde van Nederland
    10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

#### 2001

    9th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

#### 2002

    6th Firenze–Pistoia

#### 2003

    Tour of the Basque Country
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 4
    9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    10th Overall Peace Race

#### 2004

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    6th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    8th Giro della Romagna
    10th Overall Ronde van Nederland
    10th Chrono des Herbiers

#### 2005

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Firenze–Pistoia
    3rd Overall Tour de Georgia
    8th Chrono des Herbiers

#### 2006

    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    8th Overall Tour de Georgia

#### 2007

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stages 6–9

#### 2008

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour of Ireland
    1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
    2nd Firenze–Pistoia
    2nd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
    3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
    4th Chrono des Nations
    9th Overall Danmark Rundt

#### 2009

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
    1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour de Romandie
    3rd Overall Tour of Missouri
    5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    5th Overall Tour of Ireland
    6th Overall Sachsen Tour
    9th Clásica de San Sebastián

#### 2010

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Overall Tour of Oman
    7th Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Prologue
    5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
    9th Overall Giro d'Italia

#### 2011

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
       Held after Stage 1
    4th Overall Tour de Romandie
    6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

#### 2012

    1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
    1st Sprints classification, Tour of the Basque Country
    2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    5th Time trial, Olympic Games
    6th Overall Tour of Austria
       1st Stage 7 (ITT)
    9th Overall Giro del Trentino
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)

#### 2013

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Chrono des Nations
    7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 48 | 60 | 18 | 65 | 40 | 9 | DNF | 41 | — |
| Tour de France | 113 | — | 52 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |