Davide Rebellin

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Davide Rebellin

Personal information
Full name	Davide Rebellin
Nickname	Tintin
Date of birth	August 9, 1971 (1971-08-09) (age 36)
Country	Italy
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	63 kg (140 lb/9.9 st)
Team information
Current team	Gerolsteiner
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1992–1994 1995 1996 1997 1998–1999 2000–2001 2002–	MG Bianchi Maglificio MG-Technogym Polti Française des Jeux Polti Liquigas-Pata Gerolsteiner
Major wins
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2004) La Flèche Wallonne (2004, 2007) Amstel Gold Race (2004) Tirreno-Adriatico (2001) Clásica de San Sebastián (1997) Züri-Metzgete (1997) Paris-Nice (2008) Giro d'Italia, 1 stage
Infobox last updated on:
March 16, 2008

Davide Rebellin (born 9 August 1971 in San Bonifacio, province of Verona) is an Italian road bicycle racer. He is most known in the cycling world for his 2004 season, when he won an unprecedented and unrepeated treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He is considered one of the finest classics specialist of his generation with more than fifty top ten finishes in UCI World Cup and UCI ProTour classics.^[1] Throughout his career he has also won a stage in Giro d'Italia and stage races like Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico. He will retire at the end of 2009 season.^[2]

Contents 1 Career 2 Major achievements 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

Rebellin turned professional in 1992 and came to the attention of the cycling world with a string of strong performances during his early years. In 1996 he gained further notice when he thrived in the 1996 Giro d'Italia. Riding for Polti, the young Italian took stage seven and with it the maglia rosa. He held the leader's jersey for six days and finished the Grand Tour sixth overall. Years later he said of the race, "I have won Classics, but the first important win was in the 1996 Giro, winning the maglia rosa with the stage."^[3]

In 1997 he scored his first UCI World Cup victories by winning the Clásica de San Sebastián and the Züri-Metzgete (then known as Grand Prix de Suisse). The following years he won many Italian classic races like Giro del Veneto and Tre Valli Varesine. In 2001 he won the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race.

During 2004 season he got seven victories, including an unprecedented and unrepeated treble win in the Ardennes classics with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He also scored a number of podium places in top races such as Paris-Nice and Clásica de San Sebastián. Despite his stellar achievements, Rebellin did not win the 2004 UCI Road World Cup, which went to Paolo Bettini.

In 2005, Rebellin fell short of his triumphs in 2004, but posted yet another solid year. Although he generally concentrated on classics and small tours, he was part of the Gerolsteiner team in the 2005 Tour de France. With a number of solid performances throughout the season, without any individual victories, Rebellin finished as the 3rd highest ranked rider in the UCI ProTour rankings. Apart from the ProTour races, he only won one race in the 2005 season, taking the first stage of the Brixia Tour.

Rebellin began the season leading Paris-Nice until Alberto Contador moved him to second in the final stage to Nice. He later finished second in Amstel Gold Race and won the Flèche Wallonne, which made him the oldest ever winner of an UCI ProTour race. He finished second in the UCI ProTour behind Cadel Evans.

Rebellin triumphed early in 2008 with an overall victory in the Paris-Nice. He won the stage race by 3 seconds ahead of Rinaldo Nocentini.^[4] He went on to win the Tour du Haut Var and show strongly in the Ardennes classics with a second place in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

[edit] Major achievements

v • d • e Riders on Gerolsteiner Francesco De Bonis | Robert Förster | Markus Fothen | Thomas Fothen | Mathias Frank | Johannes Fröhlinger | Oscar Gatto | Heinrich Haussler | Tim Klinger | Bernhard Kohl | Sven Krauß | Sebastian Lang | Andrea Moletta | Volker Ordowski | Davide Rebellin | Matthias Russ | Ronny Scholz | Stephan Schreck | Stefan Schumacher | Tom Stamsnijder | Fabian Wegmann | Carlo Westphal | Peter Wrolich | Oliver Zaugg | Markus Zberg | Manager: Hans-Michael Holczer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Davide Rebellin profile at the Cycling Website
• Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk

Persondata
NAME	Rebellin, Davide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1971-08-09
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Bonifacio, Italy
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH