Marco Velo

Marco Velo
Personal information
Full name	Marco Velo
Born	9 March 1974 (age 50); Brescia, Italy
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1996–1997	Brescialat
1998–2001	Mercatone Uno–Bianchi
2002–2005	Fassa Bortolo
2006–2008	Team Milram
2009–2010	Quick-Step
Major wins
	One-day races and ClassicsNational Time Trial Championships (1998, 1999, 2000)

Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.

Professional career

Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. Since 2002, Velo has ridden as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to go join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team,^[1] but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team,^[2] but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.^[3] For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team.^[4]

Major results

Source:^[5]

1997

1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino

7th Overall Critérium International

8th Tour du Haut Var

1998

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Points classification

1st Combination classification

1st Stage 4b (ITT)

1st Firenze–Pistoia

1st Coppe della Nazioni

2nd GP d'Europe (with Marco Serpellini)

4th Giro del Piemonte

6th Grand Prix des Nations

7th Trofeo Pantalica

1999

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

1st Firenze–Pistoia

1st GP Llodio

2nd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato

2nd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa

5th GP Miguel Induráin

5th Trofeo Melinda

6th Japan Cup

7th La Flèche Wallonne

7th Klasika Primavera

8th Giro di Lombardia

9th Coppa Placci

10th Amstel Gold Race

2000

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

9th Coppa Bernocchi

2001

2nd Coppe dell Nazioni

2005

3rd Giro di Toscana

6th Coppa Bernocchi

7th Trofeo Luis Puig

9th Giro della Provincia di Lucca

2006

1st Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi)

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Giro d'Italia	81	30	20	DNF	DNF	11	—	21	100	103	—	—	87	—	108
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	39	—	54	DNF	DNF	—	97	—	42	—	—
/ Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	57	—	114	DNF	118	117	—	93	—