Giovanni Visconti (cyclist)

Summary

Giovanni Visconti (born 13 January 1983) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam VF Group–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè.[5][6]

Giovanni Visconti
Visconti at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
Personal information
Full nameGiovanni Visconti
NicknameVisco
Born (1983-01-13) 13 January 1983 (age 41)
Turin, Italy
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Amateur teams
2002Casprini
2003–2004Finauto
2004De Nardi–Piemme Telekom (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2005Domina Vacanze
2006Team Milram
2007–2008Quick-Step–Innergetic
2009–2011ISD
2012–2016Movistar Team[1][2]
2017–2018Bahrain–Merida
2019–2020Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM[3][4]
2021–2022Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
Mountains classification (2015)
2 individual stages (2013)

Stage races

Tour of Turkey (2010)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships
(2007, 2010, 2011)
Giro dell'Emilia (2017)
GP de Fourmies (2008)

Other

UCI Europe Tour (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11)

Professional career edit

Early career edit

 
Visconti, wearing the Italian national champion's jersey, at the 2008 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Born in Turin, Visconti won his first race in 2006 at the Coppa Sabatini. One year later, he won the Italian National Road Race Championships on 1 July 2007, beating Paolo Bossoni (Lampre–Fondital) and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) at the end in a sprint. At 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) to go Rebellin accelerated and left the main field, closely followed by Visconti, Bossoni, and Christian Murro (Tenax–Menikini). The four were able to keep the peloton away until the final meters.

In 2010, Visconti won the 2.HC Tour of Turkey overall classification after pocketing two stages along the way. He stood on the podium with Tejay van Garderen of Team HTC–Columbia and David Moncoutié of Cofidis. Racing himself for ISD–NERI at the time, he said after the win: "Look at the teams we've beaten: HTC-Columbia and Cofidis, not bad for a team like ours, isn't it?"[7]

Movistar Team (2012–16) edit

In April 2012, now riding for Movistar Team, Visconti took his first victory of the season at the Klasika Primavera by outsprinting his own teammate Alejandro Valverde and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Igor Antón. Four Movistar Team riders finished in the first five positions.[8] In May, Visconti had to withdraw from the Giro d'Italia during the fifteenth stage due to shortness of breath. He was told by his entourage that the event had all the symptoms of a panic attack.[9] He came back to racing and signed a victory at the Circuito de Getxo, where his puncheur qualities served him well on the final climb, where he outsprinted Danilo Di Luca.[10] He went to the Vuelta a Burgos and finished seventh overall thanks to consistent placings, especially in the queen stage to the Lagunas de Neila where he was eighth.[11] In December, it has been announced by the Italian National Olympic Committee that Visconti was suspended for 3 months and would have to pay a 10,000 Euros fine since he worked with doctor Michele Ferrari, who had been banned for life for doping athletes. Visconti has denied Ferrari had ever supplied him with doping products. The suspension started retroactively on 10 October 2012.[12]

In 2015, Visconti won the best climber's jersey of the Giro d'Italia, thanks to attacks in the final stages of the race. He qualified his conquest of the blue jersey as "a consolation" since he was going for stage wins that did not materialize during those attacks.[13] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.[14]

Major results edit

2003
1st   Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
1st   Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st GP Inda-Trofeo Aras Frattini
1st Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
1st GP Kranj
5th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2004
1st GP Kranj
1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
Giro delle Regioni
1st Stages 2 & 4b
2nd Menton–Savona
7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
8th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2005
3rd Firenze–Pistoia
4th Overall Uniqa Classic
4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
4th Giro del Veneto
4th Coppa Placci
5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
7th Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo
8th Trofeo Melinda
10th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
2006
1st Coppa Sabatini
2nd Trofeo Melinda
2nd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
4th Trofeo Laigueglia
4th Coppa Placci
5th Overall Brixia Tour
8th Memorial Marco Pantani
2007
1st   Road race, National Road Championships
1st Coppa Sabatini
1st Stage 2a Brixia Tour
3rd Firenze–Pistoia
4th Grand Prix de Wallonie
9th Clásica de San Sebastián
9th Giro di Lombardia
2008
1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Trofeo Pollença
2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie
2nd Memorial Cimurri
2nd Japan Cup
4th Brabantse Pijl
4th Giro di Lombardia
5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
9th Tre Valli Varesine
2009
1st   UCI Europe Tour
1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
1st Trofeo Melinda
1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia
2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2nd Coppa Sabatini
2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
5th Overall Giro di Sardegna
5th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
1st Stage 1b (TTT)
6th Giro del Friuli
6th Monte Paschi Strade Bianche
6th Giro della Romagna
6th Memorial Cimurri
8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
8th Japan Cup
9th Coppa Bernocchi
9th Giro del Veneto
2010
1st   UCI Europe Tour
1st   Road race, National Road Championships
1st   Overall Tour of Turkey
1st Stages 3 & 4
1st Classica Sarda
1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Brixia Tour
2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
2nd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
3rd Trofeo Melinda
3rd Giro della Romagna
3rd Coppa Sabatini
4th Giro dell'Appennino
4th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
7th Tre Valli Varesine
8th Trofeo Matteotti
10th Overall Giro di Sardegna
2011
1st   UCI Europe Tour
1st   Road race, National Road Championships
1st Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
2nd Overall Giro di Padania
2nd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
3rd Overall Tour of Oman
3rd Gran Premio di Lugano
3rd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
3rd Coppa Bernocchi
4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
1st   Points classification
1st Stage 5
4th Memorial Marco Pantani
4th Coppa Sabatini
6th Hel van het Mergelland
6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
7th Giro di Lombardia
8th Montepaschi Strade Bianche
8th Giro dell'Appennino
2012
1st Klasika Primavera
1st Circuito de Getxo
3rd Memorial Marco Pantani
4th Coppa Sabatini
5th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
7th Clásica de Almería
7th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
7th Giro dell'Emilia
8th Coppa Bernocchi
9th Gran Piemonte
10th Gent–Wevelgem
2013
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 15 & 17
7th Roma Maxima
9th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
2014
7th Circuito de Getxo
9th Clásica de San Sebastián
2015
1st   Mountains classification, Giro d'Italia
2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
6th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
8th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer
8th Klasika Primavera
8th Milano–Torino
2016
1st Klasika Primavera
3rd Overall Giro di Toscana
1st Stage 1
3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
4th GP Miguel Induráin
4th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
5th Tre Valli Varesine
8th Overall Tour du Haut Var
8th Amstel Gold Race
10th Trofeo Pollenca-Port de Andratx
2017
1st Giro dell'Emilia
2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
9th Overall Tour of Oman
2018
Tour of Austria
1st   Points classification
1st Stages 2, 4 & 8
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Trofeo Matteotti
4th Giro della Toscana
5th Strade Bianche
5th Gran Premio di Lugano
6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
9th Tre Valli Varesine
2019
1st Giro della Toscana
1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria
1st   Mountains classification, Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Stage 4
2nd Tre Valli Varesine
5th Overall Giro di Sicilia
5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
5th Coppa Agostoni
5th La Drôme Classic
6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
6th Memorial Marco Pantani
8th Gran Piemonte
2020
9th Giro dell'Emilia
9th Giro dell'Appennino
Giro d'Italia
Held   after Stages 15–16

Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
  Giro d'Italia 77 42 76 49 DNF 35 18 13 DNF 38 DNF 95
  Tour de France 37
  Vuelta a España 19 46
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References edit

  1. ^ Stokes, Shane (30 December 2011). "Juan Jose Cobo signs two year contract with Movistar team". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Movistar Team (MOV) – ESP". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Wilier Triestina become Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia-KTM for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  4. ^ Visci, Claudio (30 December 2019). "Un Team siciliano si presenta in Sicilia Vini Zabu'-KTM" [A Sicilian team is presented in Sicily: Vini Zabu'-KTM]. Ciclismo Universale (in Italian). Claudio Visci. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Bardiani CSF Faizane'". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Giovanni Visconti moves to Bardiani-CSF Faizanè, Circus – Wanty Gobert picks up CCC Team riders". VeloNews. Pocket Outdoor Media Inc. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  7. ^ Jean-Francois Quénet (19 April 2010). "Greipel takes the final stage". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Movistar's Giovanni Visconti won the Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta in Spain". Euro Sport. Eurosport.com. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  9. ^ Simon MacMichael (20 May 2012). "Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Lone escapee Rabottini hangs on to win from Rodriguez, Spaniard takes back overall lead". Road.cc. Farrelly Atkinson Ltd. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  10. ^ Alastair Hamilton (2 August 2012). "Visconti wins Circuito de Getxo". Euro Trash. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  11. ^ Peter Hymas (5 August 2012). "Moreno wins 2012 Vuelta a Burgos". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  12. ^ Shane Stokes (14 December 2012). "Visconti handed three month ban and €11,000 penalty for working with Ferrari". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  13. ^ "Giro d'Italia: Blue jersey is a consolation, says Visconti". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 30 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  14. ^ "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

External links edit

  • Giovanni Visconti at Cycling Archives  
  • Giovanni Visconti at CQ Ranking  
  • Giovanni Visconti at ProCyclingStats  
  • Giovanni Visconti Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine at Cycling Base