Davide Rebellin
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Davide Rebellin |
Date of birth | August 9, 1971 (age 35) |
Country | Italy |
Height | 1.71 m |
Weight | 63 kg |
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) Amstel Gold Race (2004) Tirreno-Adriatico (2001) Züri-Metzgete (1997) |
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Infobox last updated on: | |
January 10, 2007 |
Davide Rebellin (born 9 August 1971, San Bonifacio, province of Verona) is an Italian road bicycle racer.
He is most known in the cycling world for his sensational 2004 season. Riding for Gerolsteiner, he got seven victories, including an unprecedented and unrepeated treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He also scored a number of second places in top races such as Paris-Nice and Clásica de San Sebastián. However, he was not able to win the UCI Road World Cup.
He was on 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 2005 ProTour rankings. Apart from the ProTour races, he only won one race in the 2005 season, taking the first stage of the Brixia Tour.
[edit] Major achievements
- 2006
- 1st, Giro dell'Emilia
- Stage 2 King of the Mountains classification leader, Deutschland Tour
- Brixia Tour
- Brixia Tour stage 1
- Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd, Züri-Metzgete
- 6th, Amstel Gold Race
- 2005
- Brixia Tour, stage 1
- 2nd, Overall, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 3rd, La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd, GP Ouest-France
- 4th, Amstel Gold Race
- 5th, Giro di Lombardia
- 10th, Overall, Paris-Nice
- 2004
- 1st, Amstel Gold Race
- 1st, La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- Sachsen-Tour International, stage 3 and 4
- Trofeo Melinda
- 2003
- 1st, Rund um den Henninger Turm
- Paris - Nice, stage 2
- GP Industria & Commercio di Prato
- 2002
- GP Città di Camaiore
- Luk - Cup Bühl
- 2001
- 1st, Overall, Tirreno-Adriatico
- giro del Veneto
- 2000
- tre valli varesine
- 1999
- tre valli varesine
- 1997
- 1st, Züri-Metzgete
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
Riders on Gerolsteiner |
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Robert Förster | Markus Fothen | Thomas Fothen | Johannes Frohlinger | Oscar Gatto | Heinrich Haussler | Torsten Hiekmann | Tim Klinger | Bernhard Kohl | David Kopp | Sven Krauss | Sebastian Lang | Andrea Moletta | Volker Ordowski | Davide Rebellin | Matthias Russ | Ronny Scholz | Stefan Schumacher | Tom Stamsnijder | Marcel Strauss | Fabian Wegmann | Carlo Westphal | Peter Wrolich | Oliver Zaugg | Beat Zberg | Markus Zberg |
Manager |
Hans-Michael Holczer |
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