Alessandro De Marchi (cyclist)

Alessandro De Marchi (born 19 May 1986) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.[3]

Alessandro De Marchi
De Marchi at the 2017 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameAlessandro De Marchi
Born (1986-05-19) 19 May 1986 (age 37)
San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Team information
Current teamTeam Jayco–AlUla
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeBreakaway specialist
Amateur teams
2005–2008Permac–Brisot–Bibanese
2009–2010Team Friuli
2010Androni Giocattoli (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2011–2012Androni Giocattoli
2013–2014Cannondale
2015–2020BMC Racing Team[1]
2021–2022Israel Start-Up Nation[2]
2023–Team Jayco–AlUla
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Combativity award (2014)
Vuelta a España
3 individual stages (2014, 2015, 2018)
2 TTT stages (2015, 2017)

One-day races and Classics

Giro dell'Emilia (2018)
Tre Valli Varesine (2021)
Medal record
Road cycling
Representing  Italy
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Trentino Mixed team relay

Career edit

Born in San Daniele del Friuli, De Marchi has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, joining the Androni Giocattoli squad after a stagiaire spell with the team at the end of the 2010 season.[4]

In the 2012 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi twice featured in a breakaway, during the fifth and fourteenth stages. In the latter stage, De Marchi made it to the end of the stage with the breakaway and finished third, behind Andrey Amador and Jan Bárta; the result came on his 26th birthday.[5]

In the 2014 Tour de France, De Marchi was twice declared the 'most combative' rider of a stage, and earned the Tour's overall combativity award.[6] De Marchi claimed his first Grand Tour stage win on Stage 7 of the 2014 Vuelta a España via an early breakaway and he finished solo.[7]

BMC Racing Team announced that De Marchi would be joining them for the 2015 season.[8]

In September 2020, De Marchi signed a two-year contract with the Israel Start-Up Nation team.[9]

After a strong result in stage 4 of the 2021 Giro d'Italia, De Marchi wore the pink leader's jersey for the following 2 stages. Early in stage 12 of the same race, De Marchi crashed and was taken away in an ambulance. His team later reported that he had broken his right collarbone, six ribs and his first two thoracic vertebrae.[10]

Major results edit

Gravel edit

2022
7th UCI World Championships
2023
9th UCI World Championships

Road edit

2008
1st GP Folignano
6th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
2009
4th Ruota d'Oro
4th Zagreb–Ljubljana
7th Gran Premio di Poggiana
8th Giro del Casentino
2010
3rd Overall Tour of Romania
2011
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
7th Giro dell'Appennino
2013 (1 pro win)
1st Stage 8 Critérium du Dauphiné
4th Road race, National Championships
6th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2014 (1)
1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España
1st   Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné
9th Overall Tour des Fjords
Tour de France
  Combativity award Stages 13, 14 & Overall
2015 (1)
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 14
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
6th Overall Tour La Provence
9th Giro di Lombardia
2017
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
1st Stage 2 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
2018 (2)
1st Giro dell'Emilia
1st Stage 11 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 3 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
4th Time trial, National Championships
2019
3rd Time trial, National Championships
7th Amstel Gold Race
2020
2nd Time trial, National Championships
9th Gran Trittico Lombardo
2021 (1)
1st   Team relay, UEC European Championships
1st Tre Valli Varesine
1st   Mountains classification, Tour of the Alps
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2nd Giro della Toscana
3rd Chrono des Nations
4th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Giro d'Italia
Held   after Stages 4–5
2022
5th Giro del Veneto
  Combativity award Stage 10 Giro d'Italia
  Combativity award Stage 4 Vuelta a España
2024 (1)
1st Stage 2 Tour of the Alps

Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
  Giro d'Italia 109 98 94 65 DNF 92 38
  Tour de France 71 52 99 DNF 100
  Vuelta a España 67 78 70 76 103
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track edit

2007
1st   Team pursuit, National Championships
Athens Open Balkan Championship
1st Team pursuit
3rd Individual pursuit
2011
National Championships
1st   Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit

References edit

  1. ^ "Valter completes CCC Team's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Israel Start-Up Nation". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Team Jayco–AlUla". UCI. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Androni Giocattoli 2011: Il tricolore inseguimento open, Alessandro De Marchi da stagier ad effettivo – per lui un meritato contratto biennale per le stagioni 2011/2012" [Androni Giocattoli 2011: The tricolor tracking open, stagiaire Alessandro De Marchi to be effective – for him a deserved two-year contract for the seasons 2011/2012]. Pedale Tricolore (in Italian). WordPress. 15 October 2010. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Ryder Hesjdal regains lead in Alps". BBC Sport. BBC. 19 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  6. ^ "BMC Racing signs Alessandro De Marchi". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 2 August 2014. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  7. ^ Peter Cossins (29 August 2014). "Vuelta a España: De Marchi wins stage 7 in Alcaudete". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Transfert – Alessandro de Marchi chez BMC en 2015" [Transfer – Alessandro de Marchi at BMC in 2015]. Le Matin (in French). Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  9. ^ "De Marchi to Israel Start-Up Nation for two years". Israel Start-Up Nation. Cycling Academy Ltd. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Alessandro De Marchi suffers broken collarbone, ribs in Giro d'Italia crash". Cyclingnews.com. Cycling News. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

External links edit