Marco Velo

Marco Velo

Personal information
Full name	Marco Velo
Born	(1974-03-09) 9 March 1974 (age 50) Brescia, Italy
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1996–1997	Brescialat
1998–2001	Mercatone Uno–Bianchi
2002–2005	Fassa Bortolo
2006–2008	Team Milram
2009–2010	Quick-Step
Major wins
One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (1998, 1999, 2000)

Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.

Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. Since 2002, Velo has ridden as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to go join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team,^[1] but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team,^[2] but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.^[3] For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team.^[4]

Source:^[5]

Grand Tour	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Giro d'Italia	81	30	20	DNF	DNF	11	—	21	100	103	—	—	87	—	108
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	39	—	54	DNF	DNF	—	97	—	42	—	—
/ Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	57	—	114	DNF	118	117	—	93	—

• Marco Velo at UCI
• Marco Velo at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Marco Velo at ProCyclingStats
• Marco Velo at Cycling Quotient
• Marco Velo at CycleBase
• Personal website (in Italian)
• Profile at Team Milram official website

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