Matteo Tosatto Explained

Matteo Tosatto
Fullname:Matteo Tosatto
Birth Date:1974 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Weight:740NaN0
Discipline:Road
Ridertype:Classics specialist
Proyears1:1997
Proteam1:MG Maglificio–Technogym
Proyears2:1998–1999
Proyears3:2000–2005
Proyears4:2006–2010
Proyears5:2011–2016
Manageyears1:2017–
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

1 individual stage (2006)

Giro d'Italia

1 individual stage (2001)

Matteo Tosatto (born 14 May 1974 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian former road racing cyclist.[1] He rode as a professional between 1997 and 2016, with his biggest personal victories coming in stages of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.[2] He contested 34 Grand Tours during his career, making him the rider with most participations[3] and finishing 28 of them.

Following his retirement, Tosatto became a directeur sportif with, beginning midway through the 2017 cycling season.[4]

Major results

1996
  • 1st Stage 9 Girobio
    1997
  • 7th Rund um Köln
    1998
  • 1st Giro del Medio Brenta
  • 3rd Overall Tour of Austria
  • 5th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
  • 5th GP Rik Van Steenbergen
    1999
  • 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
  • 7th Brabantse Pijl
  • 9th Clásica de Almería
    2000
  • 1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
  • 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm
  • 3rd Giro della Romagna
  • 6th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
    2001
  • 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
    2002
  • 1st Coppa Placci
  • 3rd Trofeo Matteotti
  • 3rd Coppa Bernocchi
  • 4th Criterium d'Abruzzo
  • 5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
  • 6th Trofeo Melinda
  • 10th Giro della Romagna
    2003
  • 5th Giro del Piemonte
    2004
  • 1st Giro di Toscana
  • 1st GP Kanton Aargau Gippingen
  • 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
  • 2nd Giro del Veneto
  • 2nd Giro della Romagna
  • 3rd Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca
  • 4th Coppa Bernocchi
  • 7th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
    2006
  • 1st Stage 18 Tour de France
  • 7th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
    2007
  • 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Qatar
    2008
  • 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Qatar
  • 4th Giro del Lazio
    2009
  • 9th Memorial Cimurri
    2011
  • 8th Giro del Friuli
    2012
  • 7th Paris–Roubaix

    Grand Tour general classification results timeline

    Grand Tour19971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016
    Giro d'Italia43DNF5063DNF1071229456136104112107
    Tour de France132601101251089611412392119132145
    Vuelta a España134DNFDNFDNFDNF67135115120
    Legend
    Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Team Saxo-Tinkoff (TST) – DEN. 12 January 2013. UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale.
    2. Web site: Matteo Tosatto. Pro Cycling Stats. 28 July 2017.
    3. News: Nigel. Wynn. Team Sky appoints former Tinkoff pro Matteo Tosatto as sports director. Cycling Weekly. TI Media. 28 July 2017. 27 December 2021.
    4. News: Matteo Tosatto wordt sportdirecteur bij Team Sky. 28 July 2017. Het Nieuwsblad. Belga. 28 July 2017. nl-BE. Matteo Tosatto becomes a sporting director at Team Sky.