Il Piccolo Principe (The Little Prince), L'Astore del Montello (The Goshawk of the Montello)
Born
(1981-09-19) 19 September 1981 (age 42) Cerro Veronese, Italy
Height
1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight
58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
Climber
Puncheur
Amateur teams
1997–1999
Gaiga–Gore Tex
2000–2001
Zalf–Euromobil–Fior
Professional teams
2002–2004
Saeco–Longoni Sport
2005–2014
Lampre–Caffita
2015–2018
Nippo–Vini Fantini[1]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
General classification (2004)
4 individual stages (2004)
Tour de France
Young rider classification (2006)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2009)
Stage races
Tour of Qinghai Lake (2003)
Giro del Trentino (2004, 2006, 2007)
One-day races and Classics
Giro di Lombardia (2004, 2007, 2008)
Amstel Gold Race (2008)
Japan Cup (2005, 2008)
Medal record
Representing Italy
Men's road bicycle racing
UCI Road World Championships
2008 Varese
Men's road race
Damiano Cunego (born 19 September 1981) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist,[2] who rode professionally between 2002 and 2018 for the Saeco, Lampre–Merida and Nippo–Vini Fantini–Europa Ovini teams.
Cunego's biggest wins were the 2004 Giro d'Italia, the 2008 Amstel Gold Race, and the Giro di Lombardia in 2004, 2007 and 2008. He finished second in the UCI Road World Championships in 2008 and in the 2008 UCI ProTour. Primarily a climber, he improved his time-trialing and was characterized by great sprinting ability, unusual for a climber.
^"Nippo-Vini Fantini hoping to secure Giro d'Italia wildcard". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^Benson, Daniel (17 June 2018). "Cunego closes out WorldTour career at Tour de Suisse". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 22 January 2019. It's been a long career and my first year was in 2002.
DamianoCunego (born 19 September 1981) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2018 for the Saeco...
Look up Cunego in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cunego is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: DamianoCunego (born 1981), Italian...
Franco Chioccioli, Gianni Bugno, Gilberto Simoni, Paolo Savoldelli, DamianoCunego, Vincenzo Nibali, Ivan Basso and Michele Scarponi. The remaining winner...
two days later in the Japan Cup, where he placed a close third behind DamianoCunego and Giovanni Visconti. He later returned to racing in his home tour...
Classic in autumn, the only Monument in the latter part of the year. DamianoCunego imposed himself as the Lord of Lombardy with three victories. In 2006...
edition of the race, DamianoCunego was the overall victor after two stage wins and a second place on the last day. DamianoCunego won by 24 seconds over...
(Davitamon–Lotto) Mountains Michael Rasmussen (DEN) (Rabobank) Youth DamianoCunego (ITA) (Lampre–Fondital) Combativity David de la Fuente (ESP) (Saunier...
minute and 21 seconds ahead of DamianoCunego, both time gaps unlikely to be recouped due to Voeckler's and Cunego's limited time trial skills. However...
third highest ranked Lampre–Fondital rider behind Alessandro Ballan and DamianoCunego. After retiring from competition Vila worked for Specialized Bicycle...
Wilier. More recently World Champion Alessandro Ballan and runner up DamianoCunego rode Wilier bicycles to victory in the 2008 UCI Road World Championships...
in 1997 with Ivan Gotti, in 2003 with Gilberto Simoni in 2004 with DamianoCunego. Saeco became Lampre–Caffita in 2005, and the relationship with Cannondale...
experienced a mechanical issue that necessitated a bike change, Evans and DamianoCunego responded to an attack from Vinokourov, and stayed away to the stage's...
classification for 13 stages, losing it to DamianoCunego on the 17th stage. He finished the Tour 38 seconds behind Cunego. 2002 1st Overall Ronde de l'Isard...
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