Davide Cimolai

Davide Cimolai

Cimolai at the 2013 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full name	Davide Cimolai
Nickname	Cimo
Born	13 August 1989 Pordenone, Italy
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lampre–Merida
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter/Lead-out man
Professional team(s)
2010–2011	Liquigas–Doimo
2012–	Lampre–ISD
Major wins
One-Day Races and Classics Trofeo Laigueglia (2015)
Infobox last updated on 25 February 2015

Davide Cimolai (born 13 August 1989) is an Italian professional road and track bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam Lampre–Merida.^[1]

Career

Born in Pordenone, Cimolai has competed as a professional since the 2010 season, competing for the Liquigas–Doimo team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Lampre–ISD squad for the 2012 season.^[2] Cimolai made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Vuelta a España, where he was the Lampre–ISD team's main sprinter in a climber-stacked squad; he finished inside the top ten of a stage for the first time, when he placed seventh on the second stage.^[3][4]

Cimolai's first two professional wins came in 2015. He won the Italian Trofeo Laigueglia classic, then, a month later, won the fifth stage of Paris–Nice.^[5][6]

Palmarès

2005

2nd National Novice Time Trial Championships

2007

1st Giro Ciclistico della Bassa Friulana

1st Gran Premio Ormesani

1st Medaglia d'oro Sportivi Castione

1st Giro della Romagna

1st GP R.E.M. Crema

1st Giro Delle Conche

1st Trofeo Orogildo

National Junior Track Championships

2nd Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

2nd Interregionale Bracciale del Cronoman

2nd GP Terenzano-Trieste

2nd GP Città di Cividale

2nd Gran Premio Euro 90

2nd Circuito di Fontanellette

3rd Trofeo Fiaschi Alfredo

4th Gran Premio Italmanubri

4th Gran Premio Ellegi

2008

1st Piccolo Giro d'Emilia

1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone

2nd UIV CUP Fiorenzuola

3rd European Under-23 Track Championships – Team pursuit

5th GP Sportivi di Podenzano

2009

1st Coppa San Geo

1st Trofeo Franco Balestra

1st Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza

2nd Trofeo Marco Rusconi

2nd Medaglia d'Oro Fiera di Sommacampagna

3rd Medaglia d'Oro Frare De Nardi

3rd Memorial Danilo Furlan

3rd La Popolarissima

4th Giro Nazionale del Valdarno

5th Circuito Internazionale di Caneva

5th GP De Nardi

7th Trofeo Edil C

2010

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

4th Circuito de Getxo

9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

2011

European Under-23 Track Championships

1st Scratch race

2nd Madison

National Track Championships

1st Scratch race

1st Madison

2nd Team pursuit

6th GP Kranj

2012

9th Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

2013

3rd Trofeo Platja de Muro

4th Grand Prix de Fourmies

5th Brussels Cycling Classic

2014

7th Vattenfall Cyclassics

2015

1st Trofeo Laigueglia

1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice

8th Milan–San Remo

2016

1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2012	2013
Giro	-	-
Tour	-	137
Vuelta	163	-

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

1. "Lampre-Merida (LAM) – ITA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
2. van Eyck, Xylon (5 November 2011). "Davide Cimolai bolsters Lampre-ISD sprint train". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 21 August 2012.
3. Atkins, Ben (19 August 2012). "John Degenkolb takes stage two in tight, uphill sprint". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 21 August 2012.
4. Westemeyer, Susan (19 August 2012). "Degenkolb sprints to Vuelta a Espana stage 2 win". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). Retrieved 21 August 2012.
5. "Trofeo Laigueglia 2015 - Classic". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
6. "Paris - Nice 2015 - Stage 5". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

• Lampre-ISD profile
• Davide Cimolai on Twitter
• Davide Cimolai profile at Cycling Archives
• Cycling Quotient profile