# Jakub Mareczko

Jakub Mareczko (born 30 April 1994) is an Italian road cyclist of Polish origin, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Team Corratec–Vini Fantini. A sprinter, Mareczko was described by the Italian national cycling coach Davide Cassani as one of the best young hopes for Italian cycling.

## Career

Mareczko was born in Poland on 30 April 1994; he moved with his mother to Brescia, Italy, when he was five years old.

### Southeast Pro Cycling (2015–18)

It was announced that Mareczko had signed his first professional contract with the then Neri Sottoli in July 2014. Racing as an amateur cyclist in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, he won 16 races and came to the attention of Davide Cassani. He was the most successful under-23 rider in Italy in 2014. Mareczko was seen as one of the major hopes for Southeast Pro Cycling, which had been in significant trouble on account of repeated doping cases; the team also signed the veteran sprinter Alessandro Petacchi with the hope that he would be able to help Mareczko to develop as a cyclist (in particular to get stronger on the climbs), as well as potentially leading him out in the sprints.
Mareczko's first wins as a professional cyclist came in the 2015 Vuelta al Táchira (a 2.2 race where many of the riders are amateurs), where he won stages 3 and 4. He was then selected to lead the Italian national team in the sprint stages at the Tour de San Luis, where he twice finished in the top ten, including a third place on the final stage behind Mark Cavendish and Fernando Gaviria. He started both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne but finished neither. He finished third on the second stage of the Tour de Langkawi, then finished second on the fourth and sixth stages. Mareczko's cobbled classics season then continued with his participation in Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, the Three Days of De Panne and the Scheldeprijs, although he finished none of these races. Mareczko won two stages at the Vuelta a Venezuela, a 2.2-ranked race. His first professional-level victory came at the end of the 2015 road racing season, when he won the sixth stage of the 2.HC-ranked Tour of Hainan. A few days before this victory, Southeast Pro Cycling announced that his contract had been renewed for the following two seasons. It was followed by more victories in China: at the 2.1-ranked Tour of Taihu Lake, Mareczko won all seven of the nine stages to end in bunch sprints. He also won the general classification, the points classification and the young rider classification.
He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, but abandoned the race on Stage 5.

### Post-Southeast (2019–present)

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España, recording a best stage finish of third place on the fourth stage. The following month, he signed a two-year contract with the Vini Zabù team, from the 2021 season. However, Vini Zabù folded at the end of the 2021 season, and Mareczko joined Alpecin–Fenix for the 2022 season.
At the 2022 ZLM Toer Mareczko won the bunch sprint for Stage 2 however, he was relegated soon after and Olav Kooij named as the winner. Mareczko won the following day's stage into Buchten [nl], and ultimately finished the race second overall, behind Kooij.

## Major results
### 2014

    1st Circuito del Porto

### 2015 (9 pro wins)

    1st Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 & 9
    Vuelta al Táchira
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    Vuelta a Venezuela
       1st Stages 2 & 9
    1st Stage 6 Tour of Hainan

### 2016 (11)

    1st Tour of Yancheng Coastal Wetlands
    Tour of Qinghai Lake
       1st Stage 2, 11 & 13
    Presidential Tour of Turkey
       1st Stages 5 & 8
    Tour of Taihu Lake
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 6
    1st Stage 7 Tour de San Luis
    1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi
    1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    3rd Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

### 2017 (13)

    1st Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7
    Tour of Hainan
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
    Tour de Langkawi
       1st Stages 3 & 7
    1st Stage 3 Tour de Bretagne

### 2018 (7)

    Tour du Maroc
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 10
    Sharjah Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2 & 4
    Tour of Taihu Lake
       1st Stages 3, 5 & 7
    1st Stage 5 Tour of China II
    1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan

### 2019

    3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
    6th Primus Classic

### 2020 (3)

    Tour de Hongrie
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2, 3 & 4

### 2021 (2)

    1st Trofej Umag
    1st Stage 1a Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    6th Gran Piemonte

### 2022 (3)

    Tour of Antalya
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 4
    1st Stage 4 Tour de Langkawi
    2nd Overall ZLM Toer
       1st Stage 3
    4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic

### 2023 (1)

    1st Stage 2 ZLM Tour
    1st Stage 5 Tour de Bretagne
    4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
    5th Bredene Koksijde Classic
    7th Van Merksteijn Fences Classic

### 2024 (2)

    1st Circuito del Porto
    1st Stage 1b International Tour of Hellas
    1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan
    2nd GP Adria Mobil
    3rd Trofej Umag

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |