Filippo Pozzato
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Filippo Pozzato |
| Nickname | Pippo |
| Date of birth | September 10, 1981 (age 25) |
| Country |  Italy |
| Height | 1.83 m |
| Weight | 73 kg |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Liquigas |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2000-2002 2003-2004 2004-2006 2007- |
Mapei-Quick Step Fasso Bortolo Quick Step-Innergetic Liquigas |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de France, 1 stage (2004) Tirreno-Adriatico (2003) HEW Cyclassics (2005) Milano-Sanremo (2006) Omloop Het Volk (2007) |
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| Infobox last updated on: | |
| December 21, 2006 | |
Filippo Pozzato (born September 10, 1981) is an Italian road cyclist with the Italian Liquigas professional cycling team.
[edit] Career
Pozzato was born in Sandrigo, Veneto, where he currently lives.
He turned professional in 2000 with the Mapei cycling team, part of the famous classe di '81 a group of emerging young riders born in 1981 who were part of the Mapei TT3 development team. Other alumni include Fabian Cancellara and Bernard Eisel, and Eastern Europeans Kolobnev and Gryschenko.
After Mapei ended its sponsorship in 2002 Pozzato joined Giancarlo Ferretti's Fassa Bortolo cycling team. Despite his win of Tirreno-Adriatico in 2003 and a stage win in the 2004 Tour de France, personality clashes with Ferretti meant that Pozzato suffered poor years with Fassa Bortolo in 2002-2004. During this period he was injured for some time and had to work for star spritnter Alessandro Petacchi at other times.
During the 2004 season he was chosen to be part of the winning Italian 2004 Olympics team in support of team leader Paolo Bettini. He re-established contact with several managers and directeurs sportif of Quick Step-Innergetic. The Quick Step-Innergetic team expressed interest and Pozzato was able to obtain a release for the 2005 ProTour season, joining several former Mapei riders already on the team, such as Paolo Bettini and Davide Bramati.
The 2005 ProTour season went better for Pozzato, with a win in the HEW Cyclassics in front of teammate Luca Paolini.
The 2006 season saw him win the first major classic of the year Milan-Sanremo after a superb ride which saw him first work for team leader Tom Boonen, but then was forced to launch his own winning attack in the finale.
For the 2007 season, Pippo joined the Liquigas squad, and began his season in style, winning the Tour du Haut Var and the Omloop Het Volk.
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| Riders on Liquigas |
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Michael Albasini | Magnus Bäckstedt | Manuel Beltrán | Leonardo Bertagnolli | Patrick Calcagni | Eros Capecchi | Kjell Carlström | Dario Cataldo | Francesco Chicchi | Mauro Da Dalto | Danilo di Luca | Francesco Failli | Antonio Murilo Fisher | Enrico Gasparotto | Roman Kreuziger | Aleksandr Kuschynski | Vladimir Miholjevic | Matej Mugerli | Vincenzo Nibali | Andrea Noè | Luca Paolini | Franco Pellizotti | Roberto Petito | Filippo Pozzato | Manuel Quinziato | Alessandro Spezialetti | Guido Trenti | Alessandro Vanotti | Charlie Wegelius | Frederik Willems |
| Manager |
| Roberto Amadio |
