Personal information | |
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Full name | Ivan Quaranta |
Nickname | The Cheetah (Italian: il Ghepardo) |
Born | Crema, Italy | 14 December 1974
Team information | |
Current team | Team MBH Bank Colpack Ballan |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
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Rider type | Sprinter |
Professional teams | |
1996–1997 | Team Polti |
1998 | KRKA–Telekom Slovenije |
1999–2000 | Mobilvetta Design–Northwave |
2001–2002 | Alexia Alluminio |
2003 | Saeco |
2004 | Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavè |
2005 | Domina Vacanze |
2006 | CB Immobiliare–Universal Caffè |
2007–2008 | Amore & Vita–McDonald's |
Managerial team | |
2017– | Team Colpack |
Major wins | |
Giro d'Italia, 6 stages |
Ivan Quaranta (born 14 December 1974) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Team MBH Bank Colpack Ballan.[1] During his career, he won six stages at the Giro d'Italia, between 1999 and 2001.
Career
[edit]Born in Crema, Lombardy, Quaranta's most successful year was 1999, when he was riding for the Mobilvetta Design–Northwave team; he already had five wins to his credit leading up to the Giro d'Italia. He then won the first stage in a sprint finish, ahead of Mario Cipollini, significantly boosting his profile.
In 2003, Quaranta was hired by Saeco to replace Cipollini as the team's protected sprinter; he won sprints in lesser races such as the Brixia Tour and the Tour of Qatar. Saeco dropped Quaranta after a single season, subsequent to which he had negligible success. His final win was in the 2007 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda.
Quaranta retired from professional cycling after the 2008 season.
Major results
[edit]- 1997
- 3rd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
- 10th Overall Giro di Puglia
- 1998
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Normandie
- 1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour
- Tour de Serbie
- 1st Stages 1 & 7
- 1999
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 1 & 11
- 1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 1 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Abruzzo
- 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 2000
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 1 & 10
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stages 7, 8 & 11
- 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 2nd Memorial Fabio Casartelli
- 2001
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 5 & 16
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Netherlands
- 2002
- 1st Dwars door Gendringen
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of Sweden
- 1st Stage 2a Regio-Tour
- 2nd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2003
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour
- 1st Stage 1 Brixia Tour
- 2004
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 9th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 2007
- 1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]Grand Tour | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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DNF | DNF | 129 | DNF | — | DNF | DNF |
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Did not contest during career | ||||||
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— | — | — | DNF | DNF | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ "Team Colpack Ballan". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
External links
[edit]- Ivan Quaranta at ProCyclingStats
- Ivan Quaranta at Cycling Archives