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Wikipedia / Ivan Quaranta

Ivan Quaranta (born 14 December 1974) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . During his career, he won six stages at the Giro d'Italia, between 1999 and 2001.

Career

Born in Crema, Lombardy, Quaranta's most successful year was 1999, when he was riding for the team; he already had five wins to his credit leading up to the Giro d'Italia. He then won the first stage in a sprint finish, ahead of Mario Cipollini, significantly boosting his profile.

In 2003, Quaranta was hired by to replace Cipollini as the team's protected sprinter; he won sprints in lesser races such as the Brixia Tour and the Tour of Qatar. Saeco dropped Quaranta after a single season, subsequent to which he had negligible success. His final win was in the 2007 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda.

Quaranta retired from professional cycling after the 2008 season.

Major results

  1. 1997

  2. 3rd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt

  3. 10th Overall Giro di Puglia

  4. 1998

  5. 1st Stage 1 Tour de Normandie

  6. 1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour

  7. Tour de Serbie

    1. 1st Stages 1 & 7

    1999

  8. Giro d'Italia

    1. 1st Stages 1 & 11

    1st Stage 2 Three Days of De Panne

  9. 1st Stage 1 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

  10. 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Abruzzo

  11. 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami

  12. 2000

  13. Giro d'Italia

    1. 1st Stages 1 & 10

    Tour de Langkawi

    1. 1st Stages 7, 8 & 11

    1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

  14. 2nd Memorial Fabio Casartelli

  15. 2001

  16. Giro d'Italia

    1. 1st Stages 5 & 16

    1st Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi

  17. 1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

  18. 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Netherlands

  19. 2002

  20. 1st Dwars door Gendringen

  21. 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar

  22. 1st Stage 5 Tour of Sweden

  23. 1st Stage 2a Regio-Tour

  24. 2nd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

  25. 2003

  26. 1st Stage 4 Tour of Qatar

  27. 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

  28. 1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour

  29. 1st Stage 1 Brixia Tour

  30. 2004

  31. 1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi

  32. 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

  33. 9th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

  34. 2007

  35. 1st Stage 4 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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