Michele Bartoli

Michele Bartoli
Bartoli at the 2009 Tour of Flanders
Personal information
Full nameMichele Bartoli
NicknameIl Leoncino delle Fiandre (in Italian)
(The Little Lion of Flanders) (in English)
Born (1970-05-27) 27 May 1970 (age 54)
Pisa, Italy
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional teams
1992–1995Mercatone Uno–Medeghini–Zucchini
1996–1997MG–Technogym
1998Asics–CGA
1999–2001Mapei-Quick Step
2002–2003Fassa Bortolo
2004Team CSC
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (1994, 1998)

Stage races

Three Days of De Panne (1995, 1998)
Tirreno–Adriatico (1999)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2000)
Giro di Lombardia (2002, 2003)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1997, 1998)
Tour of Flanders (1996)
La Flèche Wallonne (1999)
Amstel Gold Race (2002)
Rund um den Henninger Turm (1997)
Brabantse Pijl (1994, 1999)
Giro dell'Emilia (1996, 2002)
Züri-Metzgete (1998)
GP Ouest-France (2000)
Omloop Het Volk (2001)
Milano–Torino (2002)
Giro del Lazio (2003)

Other

UCI Road World Cup (1997, 1998)
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Lugano Elite Men's Road Race
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Road Race

Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races.[1] On his palmarès are three of the five monuments of cycling—five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings.[2]

Considered one of the most versatile riders of his generation, Bartoli won a variety of classics. He won most of the major Italian one-day races—apart from Milan–San Remo—and was Italian national champion in 2000. In Belgium, he excelled in both the cobbled classics of Flanders and the hilly races in the Ardennes, which earned him the nickname Il Leoncino delle Fiandre ("The Little Lion of Flanders").[3] In addition to the classics, Bartoli has also won stage races, such as Tirreno–Adriatico and the Three Days of De Panne, and won two stages in the Giro d'Italia. He finished third in the world championships of 1996 and 1998.[4]

  1. ^ "New tricks for an experienced pro". cyclingnews.com. 9 April 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
  2. ^ Historic data of the World Rankings & World Cup Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Bartoli, il Leoncino delle Fiandre sta tornando". sport.sky.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Worlds 98 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).