Davide Rebellin
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| Full name | Davide Rebellin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tintin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 August 1971 San Bonifacio, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1992–1995 | GB-MG Maglificio | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Team Polti | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Française des Jeux | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Team Polti | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Liquigas–Pata | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2008 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Diquigiovanni–Androni | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Miche–Guerciotti | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Meridiana-Kamen Team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2013– | CCC–Polsat–Polkowice | ||||||||||||||||||
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Davide Rebellin (born 9 August 1971 in San Bonifacio, province of Verona) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice. He is considered one of the finest classics specialists of his generation with more than fifty top ten finishes in UCI Road World Cup and UCI ProTour classics.[1]
Rebellin is best known in the cycling world for his 2004 season, when he won a then unprecedented treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He has also won stage races such as Paris–Nice and Tirreno–Adriatico, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia.
Rebellin served a 2-year suspension for testing positive for Mircera at the 2008 Olympic Games.[2]
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. He suffers from asthma, a disease that will affect his whole career. 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 Road World Cup victories by winning the Clásica de San Sebastián and the Züri-Metzgete (then known as Grand Prix de Suisse). Over the following years he won many Italian classic races, such as the Giro del Veneto and Tre Valli Varesine. In 2001, he won the Tirreno–Adriatico stage race.
During the 2004 season he amassed seven victories, including what was at the time an unprecedented treble win in the Ardennes classics, with wins in the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Only one rider, Philippe Gilbert, has repeated this feat since, in 2011. Rebellin also scored a number of podium places in top races such as Paris–Nice and the Clásica de San Sebastián. Despite these achievements, Rebellin did not win the 2004 UCI Road World Cup, which went to Paolo Bettini.
In 2005, Rebellin fell short of his triumphs of 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 but without any individual victories, Rebellin finished as the third-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 2007 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.
Rebellin won the silver medal in the Men's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He was a member of a six-man breakaway group and claimed second place in the sprint finish. This medal has now been revoked in light of his doping sentence by the International Olympic Committee.[5][6]
On 28 April 2015, at 43 years old, Rebellin won the queen stage of the Tour of Turkey, a mountaintop finish concluding in Elmali. He beat riders twenty years younger than him to accomplish this feat.[7] With that performance, he grabbed the leader's jersey, but lost it to Kristijan Durasek on Stage 6.[8] He had to abandon on the last stage since he crashed after hitting a dog.[9]
Doping
In April 2009, the IOC announced that six athletes had tested positive during the 2008 Summer Olympics, without mentioning names or sports. Later, rumours emerged that the athletes included two cyclists, one of them a medal winner.[10] The Italian Olympic committee then confirmed that a male Italian cyclist had tested positive for CERA during the men's road race, without identifying a name. The next day, on 29 April 2009, the Italian Olympic committee confirmed that Rebellin was an involved athlete. Rebellin's agent sent a request for the analysis of the B sample[11][12] which was later also confirmed to be positive.[2] The Italian National Olympic Committee subsequently took Rebellin to court, seeking €500,000 in damages and a twelve-month custodial sentence under an Italian law passed in 2000 allowing for athletes who dope to be jailed for up to three years. However, in 2015 a court in Padua ruled that he had no criminal case to answer, in addition to clearing him of charges of tax evasion.[13][14]
Career achievements
Major results
- 1991
- 1st Giro delle Regioni
- 1st Mediterranean Games Road Race
- 1992
- 9th Giro di Lombardia
- 1994
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 1995
- 6th La Flèche Wallonne
- 4th Milan–San Remo
- 4th Tirreno–Adriatico
- 4th Tour de Romandie
- 1996
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 6th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1 stage win
- six days in maglia rosa
- 5th Japan Cup
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 7th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1997
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1998
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 1 stage Tour de Suisse
- 1 stage Tour de Wallonie
- 2nd Overall Critérium International
- 1999
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 1st Tour du Haut Var
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2000
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 4th Züri-Metzgete
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne
- 2001
- 1st Overall and one stage Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 2002
- 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd Giro del Lazio
- 3rd HEW-Cyclassics
- 2003
- 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 2nd HEW Cyclassics
- 2nd Milano–Torino
- 2nd Coppa Placci
- 3rd Overall and one stage Paris–Nice
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 4th UCI Road World Cup
- 5th Championship of Zürich
- 7th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 2004
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st two stages Sachsen-Tour International
- 1st Trofeo Melinda
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Points Classification
- 2nd UCI Road World Cup
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 6th Züri-Metzgete
- 6th HEW Cyclassics
- 2005
- 1st one stage Brixia Tour
- 2nd Overall Vuelta al País Vasco
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd GP Ouest-France
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 5th HEW Cyclassics
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 10th Overall Paris–Nice
- 2006
- 1st Overall and one stage Brixia Tour
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Züri-Metzgete
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Amstel Gold Race
- 2007
- 1st Flèche Wallonne
- 1st Overall and one stage Brixia Tour
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race
- 2nd UCI ProTour
- 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2008
- 1st Tour du Haut Var
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 4th UCI Road World Championship
- 4th Milan–San Remo
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 6th La Flèche Wallonne
- 2009
- 1st two stages Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2011
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Trofeo Melinda
- 2nd Overall Route du Sud
- 3rd G.P. Camaiore
- 5th Overall Brixia Tour
- 2012
- 1st Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Combination classification
- 1st Stage Tour de Slovaquie
- 2013
- 1st Overall Cycling Tour of Sibiu
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 3rd National Road Race Championships
- 4th Volta Limburg Classic
- 4th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 6th Overall Tour of Estonia
- 7th Vuelta a Murcia
- 8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 10th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 2014
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Vuelta a Murcia
- 4th Tre Valli Varesine
- 5th Overall Tour of Turkey
- 5th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 7th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Clásica de Almería
- 2nd Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 2015
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Turkey
- 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 2nd Overall Cycling Tour of Sibiu
- 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 5th Brabantse Pijl[15]
- 7th Overall Tour of Norway[16]
- 8th Overall Tour du Haut Var[17]
- 9th Coppa Sabatini
- 10th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 2016
- 3rd Overall Czech Cycling Tour
- 5th Overall Tour of Małopolska
- 8th Memorial Marco Pantani
- 9th Overall Dubai Tour
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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 Giro |
— | — | — | 29 | WD | WD | — | WD | — | WD | WD | WD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour |
58 | — | — | — | — | — | WD | — | — | — | — | WD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Vuelta |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | WD | WD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP
References
- ↑ Rebellin, et de 50!
- 1 2 Wilson, Stephen (Jul 8, 2009). "Backup samples positive for 5 Olympians". CNN. Associated Press.
- ↑ "Experienced Rebellin ready for Ardennes and beyond". Cycling News. April 2008.
- ↑ The 2008 Paris–Nice took place on uneasy ground, due to a dispute between the Amaury Sport Organisation (Paris–Nice Organizers) and the UCI. Despite this, Rebellin's victory was considered a triumph at the top level of cycling.
- ↑ "Rebellin Olympic medal taken away". BBC News. 17 November 2009.
- ↑ "Davide Rebellin Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ↑ Nigel Wynn (28 April 2015). "Mark Cavendish loses Tour of Turkey lead to Davide Rebellin". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ↑ "Tour of Turkey: Bilbao wins stage 6 in Selçuk". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ↑ Stephen Puddicombe (3 May 2015). "Durasek wins Tour of Turkey as Mas pips Cavendish on final stage". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ↑ "Olympics: Six Beijing Games athletes test positive for CERA". Seattle Times. 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ↑ Meadows, Mark (2009-04-29). "Doping-Silver medallist Rebellin failed Beijing test". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ↑ "Rebellin e il doping" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ↑ http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/01-05-2015/davide-rebellin-assolto-tribunale-padova-sentenza-evasione-fiscale-positivita-cera-doping-110646557388.shtml
- ↑ "Shorts: Contador to ride Route du Sud between Giro and Tour". cyclingnews.com. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ↑ Farrand, Stephen (15 April 2015). "Hermans holds off pack for Brabantse Pijl win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- ↑ Quénet, Jean-François (25 May 2015). "Tour of Norway: Vangstad solos to victory on final day". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ↑ "Mezgec wins stage 2 of Tour du Haut Var". cyclingnews.com. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
External links
- Davide Rebellin profile at Cycling Archives
- Dopeolog Profile
- Davide Rebellin is one of the characters of the cycling film "The Last Kilometer"