Team Polti VisitMalta

Team Polti VisitMalta is an Italian-registered, Spanish-based UCI ProTeam cycling team, that was founded in 2018.^[2] The team was promoted from the UCI Continental level in 2021.^[3]

Team Polti VisitMalta

The team in 2021
Team information
UCI code	PTV
Registered	Spain (2018–2020) Italy (2021–)
Founded	2018 (2018)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Continental (2018–2020) UCI ProTeam (2021–)
Bicycles	Aurum bikes
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Ivan Basso[1] Alberto Contador[1] Fran Contador[1]
Team manager(s)	Félix García Casas Jesús Hernández Sean Yates Stefano Zanatta
Team name history
2018 2019 2020 2021–2023 2024 2025–	Polartec–Kometa (PLK) Kometa Cycling Team (KMT) Kometa Xstra Cycling Team (KTX) Eolo–Kometa (EOK) Polti–Kometa (PTK) Polti VisitMalta (PTV)

Based in Pinto, Spain, and sponsored by the Fundación Contador headed by Alberto Contador, it was launched in 2018 as a UCI Continental youth formation supporting the Trek-Segafredo team.^[4] In 2021, under the patronage of the new sponsor Eolo SpA [it], it acquired the UCI ProTeam license, and this season it was invited for the first time to the Giro d'Italia.^[5]

The team rides Aurum Magma bikes equipped with full ENVE components and SRAM groupset.^[6]

A team car

Team roster

As of 11 January 2025.^[7]

Rider Date of birth  Davide Bais (ITA) (1998-04-02) 2 April 1998 (age 27)  Mattia Bais (ITA) (1996-10-19) 19 October 1996 (age 28)  Aidan Buttigieg (MLT) (1997-07-18) 18 July 1997 (age 28)  Ludovico Crescioli (ITA) (2003-10-20) 20 October 2003 (age 21)  Davide De Cassan (ITA) (2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 23)  Pablo García (ESP) (2001-01-16) 16 January 2001 (age 24)  Germán Darío Gómez (COL) (2001-03-08) 8 March 2001 (age 24)  Giovanni Lonardi (ITA) (1996-11-09) 9 November 1996 (age 28)  Mirco Maestri (ITA) (1991-10-26) 26 October 1991 (age 33)  Álex Martín (ESP) (2000-01-25) 25 January 2000 (age 25)

Rider Date of birth  Francisco Muñoz (ESP) (2001-06-24) 24 June 2001 (age 24)  Manuel Peñalver (ESP) (1998-12-10) 10 December 1998 (age 26)  Andrea Pietrobon (ITA) (1999-03-11) 11 March 1999 (age 26)  Davide Piganzoli (ITA) (2002-07-08) 8 July 2002 (age 23)  Gabriele Raccagni (ITA) (2003-02-05) 5 February 2003 (age 22)  Javier Serrano (ESP) (2001-04-17) 17 April 2001 (age 24)  Diego Pablo Sevilla (ESP) (1996-03-04) 4 March 1996 (age 29)  Fernando Tercero (ESP) (2001-12-28) 28 December 2001 (age 23)  Alessandro Tonelli (ITA) (1992-05-29) 29 May 1992 (age 33)  Samuele Zoccarato (ITA) (1998-01-08) 8 January 1998 (age 27)

Major wins

2018

Stages 1 & 4 Tour of Antalya, Matteo Moschetti

International Rhodes Grand Prix, Matteo Moschetti

Stage 2 International Tour of Rhodes, Matteo Moschetti

Stages 4 & 7 Tour de Normandie, Matteo Moschetti

Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Kevin Inkelaar

Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos, Matteo Moschetti

Stage 2 Tour de Hongrie, Matteo Moschetti

2019

Stage 3 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Michel Ries

Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Juan Pedro López

2020

Stage 1 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, Alejandro Ropero

2021

Stage 14 Giro d'Italia, Lorenzo Fortunato

Overall Adriatica Ionica Race, Lorenzo Fortunato

Stage 2, Lorenzo Fortunato

 Hungary Time Trial Championships, Erik Fetter

Stage 4 Tour du Limousin, Erik Fetter

2022

Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969, Giovanni Lonardi

 Hungary Time Trial Championships, Erik Fetter

Stage 4 Tour du Limousin, Vincenzo Albanese

2023

Overall Vuelta a Asturias, Lorenzo Fortunato

Stage 2, Lorenzo Fortunato

Stage 7 Giro d'Italia, Davide Bais

Stage 3a Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Samuele Rivi

2024

Overall Tour of Antalya, Davide Piganzoli

Stage 3, Davide Piganzoli

Stage 3 Tour du Rwanda, Jhonatan Restrepo

Stage 3 Presidential Tour of Turkey, Giovanni Lonardi

Supplementary statistics

Grand Tours by highest finishing position
Race	2021	2022	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	16	15	21	13
Tour de France	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—
Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position
Race	2021	2022	2023	2024
Tour Down Under	NH		—	—
Paris–Nice	—	—	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	83	18	26	18
Volta a Catalunya	—	—	—	—
Tour of the Basque Country	—	—	—	—
Tour de Romandie	—	—	—	—
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	—	—	—
Tour de Suisse	—	—	—	—
Tour de Pologne	—	—	—	—
Benelux Tour	—	NH[8]	—	—
Monument races by highest finishing position
Monument	2021	2022	2023	2024
Milan–San Remo	—	11	58	44
Tour of Flanders	—	—	—	—
Paris–Roubaix	—	—	—	—
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	—	—	—	—
Il Lombardia	15	55	18
Classics by highest finishing position
Classic	2021	2022	2023	2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	—	—	—	—
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne	—	—	—	—
Strade Bianche	100	25	75	79
E3 Harelbeke	—	—	—	—
Gent–Wevelgem	—	—	—	—
Amstel Gold Race	—	—	—	—
La Flèche Wallonne	—	—	—	—
Clásica de San Sebastián	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
NH	Not held

National champions

2021

Hungary Time Trial, Erik Fetter

2022

Hungary Time Trial, Erik Fetter

Notes