Gian Matteo Fagnini

Gian Matteo Fagnini ( born October 11, 1970 in Lecco ) is an Italian former racing cyclist.

As an amateur, won Gian Matteo Fagnini 1991, the race Coppa Cigogna and Florence - Viareggio. In 1993 he won the road race at the Mediterranean Games in 1993 in Languedoc -Roussillon for themselves.

1994 Fagnini was professional. Eight times he raced in the following years in the Tour de France; four times he gave up, and four times he was not among the best hundred. Three times Fagnini was in the 1990s at the same time tour with his former captain Mario Cipollini on, for which he drew the sprint as part of the " treno rosso"; Cipollini was known that he only drove the flat stages of the tour and before the mountains got out of the tour. As a member of Team Telekom made ​​Fagnini just such services as precious Domestik for Erik Zabel. In 2004 he moved to Domina Vacanze and rode back with Cipollini; in the last joint tour he broke on the second leg of his collarbone and had to cancel the tour again early.

Fagnini even scored a few own victories. In 1997 he won a stage of the Vuelta Ciclista Euskal Bizikleta and the Communidad Valenciana a la. At the Giro d' Italia 1998, he won two stages, Inter won the Giro standings and finished second in the final points classification rank three. In 2000 he won the Coca -Cola Trophy, the overall ranking multiple criteria in different German cities. In 2001 he won in Rund um Köln and 2003 at a stage of the Tour of Asturias.

2005 Gian Matteo Fagnini resigned from active cycling.

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