Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI Professional Continental Team NetApp-Endura.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. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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