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Cunego at the 2006 Giro d'Italia | | Personal information | | Full name | Damiano Cunego | | Nickname | Il Piccolo Principe (The Little Prince) | | Date of birth | September 19, 1981 (1981-09-19) (age 26) | | Country |
 Italy | | Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | | Weight | 65 kg (140 lb/10.2 st) | | Team information | | Current team | Lampre-Fondital | | Discipline | Road | | Role | Rider | | Rider type | Climbing specialist | | Professional team(s) | 2002-2004
2005- | Saeco
Lampre | | Major wins | Giro d'Italia (2004), 4 stages
Giro di Lombardia (2004, 2007)
Tour de France, young rider classification (2006)
Amstel Gold Race (2008) | | Infobox last updated on: | | May 22, 2007 | Damiano Cunego (born September 19, 1981) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He rides for the Italian UCI ProTeam Lampre. Primarily a climber, he has improved his time-trialing performance and is a general classification contender for the stage races. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ...
The UCI ProTour is a competition under the International Cycling Union (UCI). ...
A climbing specialist is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, such as those found among hills or mountains. ...
An Individual Time Trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre - literally against the watch). There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials (TTT). ...
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Career
Cunego was born at Cerro Veronese, Veneto. Country Italy Region Veneto Province Province of Verona (VR) Mayor Elevation 730 m Area 10. ...
Veneto or Venetia, is one of the 20 regions of Italy. ...
He shot to fame during May in the 2004 cycling season, sensationally winning the 2004 Giro d'Italia at the age of 22 with the Saeco team, which became Lampre-Caffita in 2005. Cunego's stunning strength in the 2004 Giro was a surprise to fans and pundits alike, and came as a blow to the prestige of his then team captain Gilberto Simoni. Relations between the two riders during the race were obviously strained and finally, when Cunego stole Simoni's solo breakaway to win the 18th stage, Simoni erupted, calling Cunego "a bastard and an idiot" in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport. Cunego's Giro win instantly made him the golden boy of Italian cycling, with thousands of fans reaching out to touch the young man in the maglia rosa as he passed. The 87th Giro dItalia was scheduled for May 9 - May 30, 2004 for a total distance of 3435 kilometers. ...
Saeco was the name of an Italian road bicycle racing team, sponsored by the company with the same name. ...
Gilberto Simoni (born August 25, 1971, Palù di Giovo, province of Trento) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. ...
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During the 2004 season he went on to win the Giro di Lombardia UCI Road World Cup race in October, his thirteenth victory of the season. He finished the season ranked number one in the UCI Road World Rankings, making him the youngest rider ever to achieve this, aged just 23. He was also the last rider ranked first on the world ranking, because as of the 2005 season the world ranking was replaced by the UCI ProTour. The Giro di Lombardia (English: Tour of Lombardy) is an Italian cycle race, based in the Lombardy region. ...
The UCI Road World Cup was a season-long road bicycle racing competition comprised to ten one-day events. ...
The UCI Road World Rankings was a system of ranking road bicycle racers based upon the results in all UCI-stanctionned races over a twelve month period. ...
The UCI ProTour is a competition under the International Cycling Union (UCI). ...
In the 2005 Giro d'Italia, Simoni and Cunego were co-captains of the Lampre-Caffita team. As it happened, however, Cunego posed no threat to Simoni. He faltered badly during the first serious climb in the Dolomites, losing six minutes in the day and any prospect of winning the general classification. At the time his team attributed his loss to a "psychological crisis" and Cunego himself said that "a great weight has been lifted from me by this defeat." After the race, however, he was found to have an acute infection of Epstein-Barr virus which might have accounted for his weakness. He did not enter the 2005 Tour de France as he had planned. The 88th Giro dItalia was held in 2005 from May 7 to May 29, running for about 3500 kilometers. ...
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In 2006, after an uneventful start to the season, Cunego finished in third on the 2006 edition of the prestigious Liège-Bastogne-Liège cycling classic losing to Alejandro Valverde and Paolo Bettini in a sprint finish. In his first Tour de France, Cunego captured the maillot blanc (or white jersey) in the Best Young Rider classification at the 2006 Tour de France from Markus Fothen on the last time-trial stage. He finished 2nd on stage 15 to L'Alpe D'Huez, after losing to Fränk Schleck, who broke away in the final 2 km. He also finished 3rd on stage 17, on the road to Morzine. The 92nd edition of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège cycling classic was held on April 23, and stretched 262 kms, altough it did not finish in traditional location of Liège, Belgium as the name of the race suggests, but rather in the small town of Ans just outide...
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The Maillot blanc (French for white jersey) is the jersey given to the best young rider in the Tour de France as determined by the best overall time. ...
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Fränk Schleck (born 15 April 1980) is a professional road bicycle racer from Luxembourg currently riding for Team CSC. Before the 2005 season, Fränk Schleck got the company of his kid brother Andy Schleck on Team CSC, and they split the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk...
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Palmares - 2002
- Giro d'Oro
- Giro del Medio Brenta
- 2003
- Tour of Qinghai Lake (overall; stage 7 win)
- 2004
- Giro d'Italia (
 1st overall; stage 2, 7, 16 and 18 wins) - Giro di Lombardia
- Giro del Trentino (overall; stage 1 and 2 wins)
- Giro dell'Appennino
- GP Industria & Artigianato
- 2 Giorni Marchigiana / GP Fred Mengoni
- Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- Memorial Marco Pantani
- 2005
- Tour de Romandie (2nd overall and stage 3 win)
- Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- Trofeo Melinda
- Japan Cup
- 2006
- Tour de France (
 Best Young Rider classification) - Giro del Trentino (overall and stage 2 win)
- Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale "Coppi e Bartali" (overall and stage 3 win)
- Giro d'Oro
- GP Industria & Artigianato
- 3rd 2006 Liege-Bastogne-Liege
- 3rd, Giro del Trentino
- 2007
- Giro del Trentino (overall; stage 1 and 2 wins)
- Deutschland Tour (stage 4)
- GP Beghelli
- Giro di Lombardia
- 2008
- 4th overall 2008 Vuelta al País Vasco
- 1st, stage 5
- 1st, points competition
- Klasika Primavera
- Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd, La Flèche Wallonne
Tour of Qinghai Lake is an elite mens professional road bicycle racing event held annually near Qinghai Lake, China. ...
The 87th Giro dItalia was scheduled for May 9 - May 30, 2004 for a total distance of 3435 kilometers. ...
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The Giro di Lombardia (English: Tour of Lombardy) is an Italian cycle race, based in the Lombardy region. ...
The Giro del Trentino (English: Tour of Trentino) is an Italian cycle road race. ...
The Memorial Marco Pantani is professional road bicycle race held annually in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ...
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The Giro del Trentino (English: Tour of Trentino) is an Italian cycle road race. ...
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Notes and references
External links - Damiano Cunego official website
- Damiano Cunego - Italian Site and Official Fans Club Online's Room.
- Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk
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Tour de France Maillot blanc (White jersey) winners
| | 1975: Moser | 1976: Martínez Heredia | 1977: Thurau | 1978: Lubberding | 1979: Bernaudeau | 1980: Van der Velde | 1981: Winnen | 1982: Anderson | 1983: Fignon | 1984: LeMond | 1985: Parra | 1986: Hampsten | 1987: Alcalá | 1988: Breukink | 1989: Philipot | 1990: Delion | 1991: Mejía | 1992: Bouwmans | 1993: Martín | 1994: Pantani | 1995: Pantani | 1996: Ullrich | 1997: Ullrich | 1998: Ullrich | 1999: Salmon | 2000: Mancebo | 2001: Sevilla | 2002: Basso | 2003: Menchov | 2004: Karpets | 2005: Popovych | 2006: Cunego | 2007: Contador Gilberto Simoni (born August 25, 1971, Palù di Giovo, province of Trento) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. ...
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The Maillot blanc (French for white jersey) is the jersey given to the best young rider in the Tour de France as determined by the best overall time. ...
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