Damiano Caruso
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Caruso at the 2015 Grand Prix d'Isbergues
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Damiano Caruso |
| Born |
12 October 1987 Ragusa, Italy |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | BMC Racing Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2009 | LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini |
| 2010 | De Rosa–Stac Plastic |
| 2011–2014 | Liquigas–Cannondale |
| 2015– | BMC Racing Team |
Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team. Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race.
Born in Ragusa, Sicily, Caruso has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini, and De Rosa–Stac Plastic teams, before joining Liquigas–Cannondale for the 2011 season. In October 2011, the Italian National Olympic Committee requested for Caruso to be suspended from competition for two years, although backdated from December 2010, in relation to a doping offence in 2007. He was given a backdated one-year ban in February 2012, allowing for him to return to competition without being banned, but all his 2011 results were voided. Caruso held the lead of the young rider classification at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, after Garmin–Barracuda's Peter Stetina lost time on the eighth stage.
In August 2014 Caruso signed a multi-year deal with the BMC Racing Team. At the end of 2014, Caruso scored a top-10 placing in the Vuelta a España, finishing ninth in the general classification. In 2015, Caruso finished eighth of the Giro d'Italia. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.
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