Alessandro De Marchi (cyclist)

Alessandro De Marchi (cyclist)
Alessandro De Marchi (born 19 May 1986) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in San Daniele del Friuli, De Marchi has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, joining the squad after a stagiaire spell with the team at the end of the 2010 season.
In the 2012 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi twice featured in a breakaway, during the fifth and fourteenth stages. In the latter stage, De Marchi made it to the end of the stage with the breakaway and finished third, behind Andrey Amador and Jan Bárta; the result came on his 26th birthday.
In the 2014 Tour de France, De Marchi was twice declared the 'most combative' rider of a stage, and earned the Tour's overall combativity award. De Marchi claimed his first Grand Tour stage win on Stage 7 of the 2014 Vuelta a España via an early breakaway and he finished solo.
announced that De Marchi would be joining them for the 2015 season.
In September 2020, De Marchi signed a two-year contract with the team.
After a strong result in stage 4 of the 2021 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi wore the pink leader's jersey for the following 2 stages. Early in stage 12 of the same race, De Marchi crashed and was taken away in an ambulance. His team later reported that he had broken his right collarbone, six ribs and his first two thoracic vertebrae.
Major results
Gravel
2022
7th UCI World Championships
2023
9th UCI World Championships
Road
2008
1st GP Folignano
6th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
2009
4th Ruota d'Oro
4th Zagreb–Ljubljana
7th Gran Premio di Poggiana
8th Giro del Casentino
2010
3rd Overall Tour of Romania
2011
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
7th Giro dell'Appennino
2013
1st Stage 8 Critérium du Dauphiné
4th Road race, National Championships
6th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2014
1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné
9th Overall Tour des Fjords
Tour de France
Combativity award Stages 13, 14 & Overall
2015
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 14
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
6th Overall Tour La Provence
9th Giro di Lombardia
2017
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
1st Stage 2 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
2018
1st Giro dell'Emilia
1st Stage 11 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 3 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
4th Time trial, National Championships
2019
3rd Time trial, National Championships
7th Amstel Gold Race
2020
2nd Time trial, National Championships
9th Gran Trittico Lombardo
2021
1st Team relay, UEC European Championships
1st Tre Valli Varesine
1st Mountains classification, Tour of the Alps
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2nd Giro della Toscana
3rd Chrono des Nations
4th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Giro d'Italia
Held after Stages 4–5
2022
5th Giro del Veneto
Combativity award Stage 10 Giro d'Italia
Combativity award Stage 4 Vuelta a España
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
2007
1st Team pursuit, National Championships
Athens Open Balkan Championship
1st Team pursuit
3rd Individual pursuit
2011
National Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
References
External links
Italian male cyclists
1986 births
Living people
People from San Daniele del Friuli
Cyclists from Friuli Venezia Giulia
Italian Vuelta a España stage winners
2014 Vuelta a España stage winners
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Italy