Marco Pinotti
Pinotti at the 2012 Giro d'Italia.
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| Full name | Marco Pinotti | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | L'Ingegnere (The Engineer) | ||||||||||||
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25 February 1976 Osio Sotto, Italy |
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time Trialist | ||||||||||||
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| 1998 | → Polti (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2004 | Lampre–Daikin | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Saunier Duval–Prodir | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | T-Mobile Team | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||
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Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist, Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013).
As an amateur he won 28 races before turning professional in 1999 with the Lampre–Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvoščiks and the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne.
In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. He had surgery on his ulna in November 2001 and started training again only in February 2002. He returned to competition in April 2002.
The 2003 season brought some victories as he won the 4th stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and the King of the Mountains classification. In the Bici Vasca he crashed and broke his pelvis, forcing recuperation. He has since fully recovered. His speciality is in individual time trials.
Pinotti joined the then newly formed Spanish team Saunier Duval–Prodir team in 2005. He won the Italian National Time Trial Championship in 2005. Pinotti came second to Luca Ascani in the 2007 Italian National time trials but Ascani was found to have tested positive for EPO and Pinotti was awarded the jersey. Pinotti retained the title in 2008.
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