Filippo Pozzato

Filippo Pozzato
	Pozzato at the 2016 Grand Prix de Denain
Personal information
Full name	Filippo Pozzato
Nickname	Pippo; The Peacock of Sandrigo
Born	10 September 1981; Sandrigo, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional teams
2000–2002	Mapei–Quick-Step
2003–2004	Fassa Bortolo
2005–2006	Quick-Step–Innergetic
2007–2008	Liquigas
2009–2011	Team Katusha
2012	Farnese Vini–Selle Italia
2013–2015	Lampre–Merida
2016–2018	Wilier Triestina–Selle Italia
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (2004, 2007) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2010) Vuelta a España 1 TTT stage (2008) Stage races Tirreno–Adriatico (2003) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2009) Milan–San Remo (2006) GP Ouest–France (2013) E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (2009) Omloop Het Volk (2007) HEW Cyclassics (2005)

Filippo "Pippo" Pozzato (born 10 September 1981) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2018 for the Mapei–Quick-Step, Fassa Bortolo, Quick-Step–Innergetic, Liquigas, Team Katusha, Lampre–Merida, and two spells with the Farnese Vini–Selle Italia/Wilier Triestina–Selle Italia teams.[1]

A northern classics specialist, Pozzato finished in second place at both the 2009 Paris–Roubaix and the 2012 Tour of Flanders. Pozzato finished a total of 37 Monument classics, including a victory in the 2006 Milan–San Remo; he finished second in the race in 2008 as well. Pozzato also won stages at the 2004 Tour de France, the 2007 Tour de France and the 2010 Giro d'Italia, and was the winner of the 2009 Italian National Road Race Championships.

Career

Mapei–Quick-Step

Born in Sandrigo, Veneto, Pozzato turned professional in 2000 with the Mapei–Quick-Step cycling team, part of the famous classe di '81 a group of emerging young riders born in 1981 who were part of the Mapei TT3 development team. Other alumni include Fabian Cancellara and Bernhard Eisel, Alexandr Kolobnev and Gryschenko.

Fassa Bortolo

After Mapei ended its sponsorship in 2002 Pozzato joined Giancarlo Ferretti's Fassa Bortolo cycling team. Despite his win of Tirreno–Adriatico in 2003 and a stage win in the 2004 Tour de France, personality clashes with Ferretti meant that Pozzato suffered poor years with Fassa Bortolo in 2002–2004. During this period he was injured for some time and had to work for star sprinter Alessandro Petacchi at other times.

During the 2004 season he was chosen to be part of the Italian 2004 Olympics team in support of team leader Paolo Bettini who went on to win the event.

Quick Step–Innergetic

He re-established contact with several managers and directeurs sportif of Quick-Step–Innergetic. The Quick Step-Innergetic team expressed interest and Pozzato was able to obtain a release for the 2005 ProTour season, joining several former Mapei riders already on the team, such as Paolo Bettini and Davide Bramati.

The 2005 ProTour season went better for Pozzato, with a win in the HEW Cyclassics in front of teammate Luca Paolini.

The 2006 season saw him win the first major classic of the year Milan–San Remo after a superb ride which saw him first work for team leader Tom Boonen, but then was forced to launch his own winning attack in the finale.

Liquigas

For the 2007 season, Pozzato joined the Liquigas squad, and began his season in style, winning the Tour du Haut Var, the Omloop Het Volk and Stage 5 of the Tour de France.

Team Katusha

In 2009 he won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen. His results show experience, comfort, and power on the cobblestones and on the Belgian hills ("hellingen"). In aftermath of his 2nd place in the 2009 Paris–Roubaix, Pozzato claimed that when avoiding a crash of Thor Hushovd he lost 4 or 5 seconds and the chance for victory. He also suggested that Boonen benefited from the slipstream of official motorcycles to augment his lead.[2]

In 2010 he has been accused by several riders, including Bjorn Leukemans, Boonen and Philippe Gilbert for his "negative tactics" during key races. This resulted in the nickname "The Shadow".[3]

Lampre-Merida

In 2013, Pozzato earned his first victory of the year in the Trofeo Laigueglia, held in Liguria, Italy on mainly narrow, twisting and turning roads. His team Lampre–Merida reeled in the breakaway and controlled the front of the leading group when Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini–Selle Italia) attacked with 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to cover, with Pozzato jumping in his slipstream. The sprint was contested by 4 riders, Pozzato getting the best of them. This marked Pozzato's third win in the event, a record in the race's history.[4] In September, he raced the GP Ouest-France and despite not being a top favourite, he won the race, becoming just the fifth Italian to do that.

Southeast Pro Cycling

In 2016 Pozzato joined the Italian-based Southeast Pro Cycling Team. In December 2018 he announced his retirement from competition.[5]

Doping ban

In 2012, Pozzato was banned from cycling for three months by the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) after it was found that he had worked with infamous doctor Michele Ferrari from 2005 to 2008. CONI had looked to ban him for a year but were forced to reduce it to a three months thanks to a technicality.[6]

Major results

1998

UCI Junior Road World Championships

2nd

Road race

3rd

Time trial

2nd

Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships

1999

3rd

Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships

4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships

2001

9th Trofeo Luis Puig

9th Paris–Bourges

2002

1st

Overall Vuelta a Cuba

1st Stage 11a

1st Duo Normand (with Evgeni Petrov)

1st Giro del Lago Maggiore

1st Tour du Lac Léman

Tour de Normandie

1st Prologue, Stages 2, 3 & 5

Tour of Slovenia

1st Stages 4 & 7

Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 5

1st Prologue Ytong Bohemia Tour

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

10th Chrono des Herbiers

2003

1st

Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 2

1st Trofeo Laigueglia

1st Trofeo Matteotti

1st Giro dell'Etna

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

6th Omloop Het Volk

2004

1st Overall Giro della Liguria

1st Trofeo Laigueglia

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

4th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

2005

1st HEW Cyclassics

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Stage 2 Deutschland Tour

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

4th Overall Ster Elektrotoer

2006

1st Milan–San Remo

3rd Overall Tour of Britain

1st Stage 3

3rd Vattenfall Cyclassics

4th Gent–Wevelgem

5th Omloop Het Volk

6th GP Ouest–France

10th Züri-Metzgete

10th Paris–Tours

2007

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st Tour du Haut Var

1st Trofeo Matteotti

1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato

1st Stage 5 Tour de France

1st Stage 6 Tour de Pologne

3rd Trofeo Laigueglia

4th GP Ouest–France

5th Memorial Cimurri

6th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

2008

1st

Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

2nd Milan–San Remo

2nd Giro del Lazio

2nd Coppa Sabatini

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

6th Tour of Flanders

7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

7th Trofeo Laigueglia

2009

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

1st Giro del Veneto

1st Memorial Cimurri

1st Stage 1 Three Days of De Panne

2nd Paris–Roubaix

2nd Trofeo Laigueglia

4th Paris–Tours

5th Tour of Flanders

5th Clásica de San Sebastián

2010

1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 3 (TTT) Vuelta a Burgos

3rd Giro del Piemonte

4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

4th Montepaschi Strade Bianche

4th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

5th Giro del Friuli

7th Paris–Roubaix

10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

2011

1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

3rd Overall Tour de Picardie

5th Milan–San Remo

2012

1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

2nd Tour of Flanders

6th Milan–San Remo

6th Dwars door Vlaanderen

9th Gent–Wevelgem

2013

1st Trofeo Laigueglia

1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni

1st GP Ouest–France

2nd Roma Maxima

3rd Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi

5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

2014

2nd Coppa Bernocchi

3rd Tre Valli Varesine

2015

10th Overall Dubai Tour

2016

2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

5th Coppa Bernocchi

7th Overall Giro di Toscana

8th Milan–San Remo

9th Gran Piemonte

2017

8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

8th Tour of Flanders

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Giro d'Italia	—	84	—	—	—	DNF	45	—	DNF	120	—	—	115	104
Tour de France	116	—	133	DNF	67	100	—	—	—	—	—	125	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

Monuments results timeline

Monument	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Milan–San Remo	DNF	63	—	1	19	2	22	29	5	6	33	30	41	8	31	52
Tour of Flanders	DNF	109	43	13	14	6	5	—	38	2	44	17	12	75	8	—
Paris–Roubaix	—	—	DNF	15	35	49	2	7	DNF	DNF	22	50	65	—	—	—
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	DNF	DNF	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Giro di Lombardia	—	—	DNF	42	19	—	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	—	—	—	DNF	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

"Pozzato announces retirement after 19 seasons in the peloton". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
Weislo, Laura; Decaluwé, Brecht (12 April 2009). "107th Paris-Roubaix - HIS". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
"Devolder is opnieuw de beste in de Ronde" (in Dutch). Sporza. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
Peter Hymas (16 February 2013). "Pozzato prevails at Trofeo Laigueglia". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
Ballinger, Alex (18 December 2018). "Milan-San Remo winner Filippo Pozzato announces retirement". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
Gregor Brown (12 September 2012). "Pozzato escapes lengthy doping ban due to paperwork error". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved 5 March 2015.

External links

Official website
Filippo Pozzato at Cycling Archives
Palmares on Cycling Base
Cyclingnews.com interview, September 2004
Filippo Pozzato at ProCyclingStats

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[1] "Pozzato announces retirement after 19 seasons in the peloton". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.

[2] Weislo, Laura; Decaluwé, Brecht (12 April 2009). "107th Paris-Roubaix - HIS". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

[3] "Devolder is opnieuw de beste in de Ronde" (in Dutch). Sporza. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

[4] Peter Hymas (16 February 2013). "Pozzato prevails at Trofeo Laigueglia". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

[5] Ballinger, Alex (18 December 2018). "Milan-San Remo winner Filippo Pozzato announces retirement". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

[6] Gregor Brown (12 September 2012). "Pozzato escapes lengthy doping ban due to paperwork error". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved 5 March 2015.

Milan–San Remo winners
1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)
1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)
1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)
2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016) Michał Kwiatkowski (2017) Vincenzo Nibali (2018) Julian Alaphilippe (2019)
2020–2039	Wout Van Aert (2020)

Italian National Road Race Champion (men)
1880–1899	Giuseppe Loretz (1885) Geo Davidson (1886) Gilberto Marley (1887–1889) Carlo Braida (1890) Ambrogio Robecchi (1891) Luigi Cantu (1892) Giuseppe Moreschi (1893) Giovanni Da Montelatico (1896)
1900–1919	Giovanni Cuniolo (1906–1908) Dario Beni (1909) Emilio Petiva (1910) Dario Beni (1911) Not attributed (1912) Costante Girardengo (1913–1914, 1919)
1920–1939	Costante Girardengo (1920–1925) Alfredo Binda (1926–1929) Learco Guerra (1930–1934) Gino Bartali (1935) Giuseppe Olmo (1936) Gino Bartali (1937) Olimpio Bizzi (1938) Mario Vicini (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Adolfo Leoni (1941) Fausto Coppi (1942) Mario Ricci (1943) Severino Canavesi (1945) Aldo Ronconi (1946) Fausto Coppi (1947) Vito Ortelli (1948) Fausto Coppi (1949) Antonio Bevilacqua (1950) Fiorenzo Magni (1951) Gino Bartali (1952) Fiorenzo Magni (1953–1954) Fausto Coppi (1955) Giorgio Albani (1956) Ercole Baldini (1957–1958) Diego Ronchini (1959)
1960–1979	Nino Defilippis (1960) Arturo Sabbadin (1961) Nino Defilippis (1962) Bruno Mealli (1963) Guido De Rosso (1964) Michele Dancelli (1965–1966) Franco Balmamion (1967) Felice Gimondi (1968) Vittorio Adorni (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970–1971) Felice Gimondi (1972) Enrico Paolini (1973–1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Franco Bitossi (1976) Enrico Paolini (1977) Pierino Gavazzi (1978) Francesco Moser (1979)
1980–1999	Giuseppe Saronni (1980) Francesco Moser (1981) Pierino Gavazzi (1982) Moreno Argentin (1983) Vittorio Algeri (1984) Claudio Corti (1985–1986) Bruno Leali (1987) Pierino Gavazzi (1988) Moreno Argentin (1989) Giorgio Furlan (1990) Gianni Bugno (1991) Marco Giovannetti (1992) Massimo Podenzana (1993–1994) Gianni Bugno (1995) Mario Cipollini (1996) Gianni Faresin (1997) Andrea Tafi (1998) Salvatore Commesso (1999)
2000–2019	Michele Bartoli (2000) Daniele Nardello (2001) Salvatore Commesso (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Cristian Moreni (2004) Enrico Gasparotto (2005) Paolo Bettini (2006) Giovanni Visconti (2007) Filippo Simeoni (2008) Filippo Pozzato (2009) Giovanni Visconti (2010–2011) Franco Pellizotti (2012) Ivan Santaromita (2013) Vincenzo Nibali (2014–2015) Giacomo Nizzolo (2016) Fabio Aru (2017) Elia Viviani (2018) Davide Formolo (2019)
2020–2039	Giacomo Nizzolo (2020)