Giovanni Lombardi
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| Full name | Giovanni Lombardi | ||||||||||||
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20 July 1969 Pavia, Italy |
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||
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| 1992-1994 | Lampre | ||||||||||||
| 1995-1996 | Polti | ||||||||||||
| 1997-2001 | Telekom | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Acqua e Sapone | ||||||||||||
| 2003-2004 | Domina Vacanze | ||||||||||||
| 2005-2006 | Team CSC | ||||||||||||
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Giovanni Lombardi (born 20 July 1969) is an Italian former professional road bicycling racer who raced from 1992 to 2006. He started his career as a sprinter, winning multiple stages in the Giro d'Italia. He went on to ride as an important helper for the top sprinter names of Erik Zabel and Mario Cipollini. Most recently, he rode for Team CSC as a helper for Ivan Basso. Lombardi was also an active track racer during wintertime, and has participated in many six-day races, frequently as a partner of Marco Villa. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal at the latter.
Lombardi was born in Pavia (Lombardy). In 1992 he became a pro with the Lampre team. Lombardi's speciality is the bunch sprint, which he already proved in his early pro-years. Among other wins, he won a stage in the 1993 Midi Libre and the year after two stages in both Tour de Suisse and Vuelta a Murcia. He also came in second in three different stages of the Giro d'Italia during his years at Lampre.
In 1995, his first year of service in the Polti team, he finally won a Giro d'Italia stage, as well as another stage win in Tour de Suisse. A year later he yet again won a stage in the Giro, as well as one in Ronde van Nederland.
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