Maurizio Fondriest (born 15 January 1965) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist.
 Fondriest in 1997 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 January 1965 Cles, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Zalf–Fior | ||||||||||||||
| Professional team | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Alfa Lum | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Del Tongo | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Panasonic | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Lampre | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Roslotto–ZG Mobili | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Cofidis | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
Others | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editBorn in Cles, Trentino, Fondriest turned professional in 1987 with the Ecoflam team. He subsequently rode for Alfa-Lum in 1988, winning the World Cycling Championships along with stages in the Tour de Suisse and Tirreno–Adriatico. In 1991, riding for Panasonic, he won the UCI Road World Cup.
In 1993, riding for the Lampre team, he won Milan–San Remo, La Flèche Wallonne, the Züri-Metzgete, the Giro dell'Emilia, the general classification and two stages of Tirreno–Adriatico, three stages and the general classification of the Grand Prix du Midi Libre, a stage in the Giro d'Italia and the overall World Cup. He never again had such a successful season, although he had another successful season with Lampre in 1995: in that year he won a stage in the Giro d'Italia and came in second in a number of races (the Tirreno–Adriatico general classification, Milan–San Remo, Gent–Wevelgem, La Flèche Wallonne, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia).
Retirement
editHe retired in 1998 after riding for Cofidis for two years, and founded a bicycle manufacturer, called Fondriest, which makes carbon fiber bicycles.
Major results
edit- 1985
- 1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Stage 8 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
- 1986
- 1st GP di Poggiana
- 1st Circuito Belvedere
- 1st Coppa Città di San Daniele
- 1987
- 1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya
- 3rd Paris–Tours
- 3rd Coppa Bernocchi
- 3rd Giro di Romagna
- 3rd Memorial Gastone Nencini
- 6th Giro dell'Emilia
- 6th Milano–Torino
- 7th Coppa Placci
- 8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 1988
- 1st
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 1st GP Industria & Commercio di Prato
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 1a Cronostaffetta
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 2nd Coppa Bernocchi
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Giro di Campania
- 3rd Coppa Placci
- 3rd Giro di Romagna
- 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 4
- 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 6th Firenze–Pistoia
- 8th G.P. Camaiore
- 1989
- 1st Giro di Toscana
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 1st Stage 1a Cronostaffetta
- 2nd Wincanton Classic
- 2nd Giro del Friuli
- 2nd G.P. Camaiore
- 2nd Giro del Veneto
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 2nd Trofeo Baracchi
- 3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 3rd Firenze–Pistoia
- 6th Giro di Romagna
- 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 10th Züri-Metzgete
- 1990
- 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 1st Stage 2 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 6
- 3rd Paris–Tours
- 5th Milan–San Remo
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Milano–Torino
- 1991
- 1st
UCI Road World Cup - Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stages 3a & 3b
- 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race
- 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 3rd Brabantse Pijl
- 4th Züri-Metzgete
- 4th Grand Prix des Nations
- 4th Firenze–Pistoia
- 5th Wincanton Classic
- 7th GP des Amériques
- 1992
- 1st Trofeo Melinda
- 1st Stage 5b Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2nd Giro del Lazio
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Giro di Campania
- 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 4th Tour of Flanders
- 7th GP des Amériques
- 7th Milano–Torino
- 9th Paris–Tours
- 9th Coppa Placci
- 1993
- 1st UCI Road World Cup
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st Firenze–Pistoia
- 1st Challenge San Silvestro d'Oro
- 1st Challenge Giglio d'Oro
- 1st Baden-Baden
- 1st
Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 1st
Overall Giro del Trentino
- 1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
- 1st
Overall GP du Midi-Libre
- 1st Stages 2, 3 & 5
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïch
- 1st Stages 1a & 1b (ITT)
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 5 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Prologue & Stage 6 (ITT)
- 2nd Paris–Tours
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Wincanton Classic
- 3rd Millemetri del Corso di Mestre
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 7th Grand Prix des Nations
- 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1b (ITT)
- 8th Tour of Flanders
- 1994
- 1st Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stages 2 & 6
- 1st Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stages 1 & 3a (ITT)
- 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Züri-Metzgete
- 3rd Firenze–Pistoia
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 7th Milano–Torino
- 1995
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Prologue Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne
- 2nd Giro di Romagna
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 5th G.P. Camaiore
- 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 8th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT)
- 8th Wincanton Classic
- 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Züri-Metzgete
- 1996
- 1st Stage 3b KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 8
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 4th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 9th Züri-Metzgete
- 1997
- 1st Stage 2 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 4th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 6th Trofeo Melinda
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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DNF | — | 28 | — | — | — | 8 | — | DNF | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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— | — | — | — | 15 | 46 | — | — | DNF | 51 | — | — |
| Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
editExternal links
edit- Maurizio Fondriest at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Maurizio Fondriest at ProCyclingStats
- Maurizio Fondriest at CycleBase
- Maurizio Fondriest at Olympics.com
- Maurizio Fondriest at Olympic.org (archived)
- Maurizio Fondriest at Olympedia
- Fondriest bicycles
