Enrico Gasparotto

Enrico Gasparotto (born 22 March 1982) is an Italian-born Swiss former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2020, for seven different teams.^[3] After retiring, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team EF Education–Nippo Development Team in 2021^[4] before joining Bora–Hansgrohe in a similar role the following year.^[5]

Enrico Gasparotto

Gasparotto at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Enrico Gasparotto
Nickname	Giallo
Born	(1982-03-22) 22 March 1982 (age 43) Sacile, Italy
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team	Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Rider type	Puncheur Classics specialist
Professional teams
2005–2007	Liquigas–Bianchi
2008	Barloworld
2009	Lampre–NGC
2010–2014	Astana
2015–2016	Wanty–Groupe Gobert
2017–2018	Bahrain–Merida
2019–2020	Team Dimension Data[1][2]
Managerial teams
2021	Nippo–Provence–PTS Conti
2022–	Bora–Hansgrohe
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 TTT stage (2007) Stage races Ster Elektrotoer (2008) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2005) Amstel Gold Race (2012, 2016) Others UCI Europe Tour (2007–08)

Career

Born in Sacile, Gasparotto turned professional in 2005 with Liquigas–Bianchi and stayed with the team for three years. At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Gasparotto led his Liquigas squad to a stage 1 team time trial win and wore the pink jersey the following day.

Gasparotto achieved his first Classics victory at the 2012 Amstel Gold Race; he won the race in an uphill finish, after Óscar Freire was caught 90 m (300 ft) before the finish line,^[6] and Gasparotto out-sprinted Lotto–Belisol's Jelle Vanendert and Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale.^[7] One week later, he took part in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, finishing third by beating a small group to the sprint in a race won by fellow Astana teammate, Maxim Iglinsky.^[8]

At the Vuelta a España, bad luck hit Gasparotto and the Astana squad on the first stage, a 16.5 km (10.3 mi) team time trial held in Pamplona. His teammates Paolo Tiralongo, Alexsandr Dyachenko, Andrey Zeits and Gasparotto himself crashed in an accident that was not picked up by the television cameras. His teammates could pick themselves up and continue, as did Gasparotto, but it was revealed that his collarbone was fractured in three places and he had to abandon the Spanish race.^[9]

Gasparotto took a second Amstel Gold triumph when he won the 2016 edition of the race, defeating Michael Valgren in a two-up sprint after the pair broke away from the main group in the closing stages of the race. It was Gasparotto's first win since his 2012 victory, and he dedicated it to Antoine Demoitié, his teammate who had died after a crash at Gent–Wevelgem the previous month.^[10]

Major results

2004

1st Stage 5 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia

3rd Gran Premio di Poggiana

2005

1st Road race, Italian National Road Championships

1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya

3rd Overall Uniqa Classic

5th Coppa Bernocchi

6th Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico

10th Paris–Tours

2006

1st Memorial Cimurri

3rd Coppa Sabatini

6th Scheldeprijs

2007

Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

Held after Stages 1 & 3

2nd Overall Danmark Rundt

4th Brabantse Pijl

Vuelta a Mallorca

5th Trofeo Mallorca

9th Trofeo Cala Millor

9th Memorial Cimurri

2008

1st Overall Ster Elektrotoer

1st Stage 3

1st Giro della Romagna

2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

2nd Coppa Placci

3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne

1st Stage 1

3rd Gran Premio di Lugano

4th Trofeo Laigueglia

5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

6th Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto

7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

7th Brabantse Pijl

10th Overall Danmark Rundt

2009

1st Sprints classification, Tour de Suisse

2nd Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto

3rd Coppa Bernocchi

8th Memorial Cimurri

2010

1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico

3rd Amstel Gold Race

9th Montepaschi Strade Bianche

2011

4th Tre Valli Varesine

2012

1st Amstel Gold Race

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

7th Trofeo Laigueglia

2013

5th Giro di Lombardia

6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

9th Amstel Gold Race

2014

8th Amstel Gold Race

8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

9th Tre Valli Varesine

2015

8th Amstel Gold Race

8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

9th Coppa Ugo Agostoni

2016

1st Amstel Gold Race

2nd Brabantse Pijl

5th La Flèche Wallonne

6th Overall Tour of Belgium

2018

3rd Amstel Gold Race

3rd Gran Premio di Lugano

3rd Coppa Ugo Agostoni

6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

2019

7th Brabantse Pijl

9th Overall Arctic Race of Norway

10th La Flèche Wallonne

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Giro d'Italia	97	92	60	DNF	—	66	—	97	—	—	76	—	69	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	95	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
/ Vuelta a España	—	—	82	68	78	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	120

Classics results

Monument	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Milan–San Remo	—	—	31	12	137	13	90	DNF	14	DNF	—	—	53	—	49	—
Tour of Flanders	—	—	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Paris–Roubaix	Did not contest during his career
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	—	—	—	—	55	—	44	3	6	12	16	12	37	6	DNF	38
Giro di Lombardia	DNF	—	—	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	5	DNF	—	—	DNF	—	—	DNF
Classic	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Strade Bianche	Did not exist		—	—	—	8	—	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Scheldeprijs	—	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Brabantse Pijl	—	—	4	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	14	38	7	DNF
Amstel Gold Race	—	—	—	—	39	3	35	1	9	8	8	1	DNF	3	42	NH
La Flèche Wallonne	—	—	—	—	19	—	61	11	30	94	15	5	DNF	27	10	30
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec	Race did not exist					—	—	—	27	8	—	—	31	36	50	NH
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal						—	—	—	7	9	—	—	77	27	DNF
Paris–Tours	10	44	16	—	—	—	—	—	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
NH	Not held