Cesare Benedetti
Benedetti in 2018.
Personal information
Full nameCesare Benedetti
Born (1987-08-03) 3 August 1987
Rovereto, Italy
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current teamBora–Hansgrohe
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeBreakaway specialist
Professional teams
2009De Nardi
2009→Liquigas (stagiaire)
2010–Team NetApp[1][2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2019)

Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian-born Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.[3]

Career

Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the Team NetApp team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the Liquigas team.[4]

Benedetti, and Team NetApp,[5] made their Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia,[6] where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing,[7] by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race.[8] Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela's Miguel Ángel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage.

He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France[9] and the 2016 Vuelta a España.[10]

Benedetti took his first individual professional victory at stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Having been part of a 25-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, he took the stage win leading a small group sprint in a late comeback after having been dropped in the last hill climb.[11]

Personal life

Benedetti's wife is Polish. He is fluent in Polish language and was granted Polish citizenship in April 2021.[12]

During the 2021 season, Benedetti started competing under a Polish licence.[13]

Major results

2005
6th Overall Giro della Lunigiana
2007
2nd Gran Premio Sportivi Podenzano
3rd Trofeo Città di Brescia
3rd Trofeo FTP Tapparo
4th Gran Premio Industria Commercio Artigianato – Botticino
4th Targa d'Oro Città di Legnano
9th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
2008
1st Trofeo Edil C
2nd Coppa Stignani
2nd Trofeo Filtri
3rd Milano–Busseto
4th Coppa Caduti di Reda
5th Trofeo G.S. Gavardo Tecmor
5th Medaglia Oro Angelo Fumagalli
9th GP Città di Felino
2009
2nd Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
3rd Gran Premio San Luigi
6th Overall Girobio
8th Città di Conegliano
9th GP Inda
10th Trofeo Eco del Chisone
2010
1st Plombières
8th Memorial Van Coningsloo
2011
8th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
2012
1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2014
9th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
2015
Giro del Trentino
1st Sprints classification
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
2016
1st Mountains classification, Tirreno–Adriatico
7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
10th Rudi Altig Race
2017
Giro d'Italia
Held after Stage 1
2018
3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
2019
1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 107 — — — — 115 108 74 94 103 120 102
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — — 128 — — — — — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — — 93 DNF — — — 107 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ "With Christoph Pfingsten, BORA – hansgrohe completes its roster for 2019". Bora–Hansgrohe. Denk Pro Cycling GmbH & Co. KG. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Ryan, Barry (28 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Bora - Hansgrohe". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "Cesare Benedetti (UCB) sarà stagista alla Liquigas-Doimo" [Cesare Benedetti (UCB) will intern at Liquigas-Doimo]. BiciBG (in Italian). Duemilacom S.r.l. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "Team NetApp (APP) – GER". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "Highly-motivated Team NetApp takes aim at Giro d'Italia". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  7. ↑ "A quick chat with Cesare Benedetti". Team NetApp. NetApp Deutschland GmbH. 12 May 2012. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  8. ↑ Robinson, Mark (11 May 2012). "Rubiano solos to Giro d'Italia stage win in Porto Sant'Elpidio". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "2016 > 103rd Tour de France > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  10. ↑ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Giro d'Italia: Benedetti wins stage 12". www.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  12. ↑ Cesare Benedetti z polskim obywatelstwem on Kolarsko.pl, 21 April 2021.
  13. ↑ "Cesare Benedetti (POL)". Vuelta a España. Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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