Mauro Santambrogio
Mauro Santambrogio ( born October 7, 1984 in Erba ) is an Italian racing cyclist.
Career
Mauro Santambrogio began his professional career in 2004 with the Italian cycling team LPR Piacenza. The following year he took part in the UCI Europe Tour, where he won the Swiss one-day race Giro del Lago Maggiore for themselves. In 2006, Santambrogio in the Italian ProTour team Lampre, in whose service he - after a short detour to the team Tenax - until the end of 2009 stood again. From 2010 Santambrogio Team takes for the BMC Racing.
In 2008 he finished the Vuelta a España, his first three-week tour of the country. He took this while only the 121st overall, but could draw attention to themselves with the 6th place in the bunch sprint of the final stage. His debut in the Tour de France was Santambrogio in 2009. Could often lead to good performances at the race Tirreno - Adriatico in 2013 to celebrate his greatest success when he won a mountain stage in the Giro d' Italia in extremely bad weather conditions Vincenzo Nibali. On June 3, 2013 it was revealed that he was tested on the first stage of the Giro positive for EPO. Thus, it was the second doping case his team at the Tour of Italy by Danilo di Luca. In October 2013 he stated that he had played with the idea to take his own life. Only the response to be Abschiedstweet at Twitter have stopped him.
Team
- 2004 Team L.P.R. - Piacenza
- 2005 Team L.P.R. - Piacenza
- 2006 Lampre- Fondital
- Tenax 2007 ( until 28.07. ) / Lampre- Fondital (from 29.07. )
- 2008 Lampre
- 2009 Lampre- N.G.C.
- 2010 BMC
- 2011 BMC
- 2012 BMC
- 2013 Vini - Selle Italia Fantini ( until 03.06. )
Achievements
- Giro del Lago Maggiore
- Tre Valli Varesine
- Gran Premio Industria & Artigianato di Montecatini Terme
- A stage of the Giro d' Italia