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Michele Bartoli

Personal information
Full name	Michele Bartoli
Date of birth	May 27, 1970 (age 36)
Country	Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1992-1995 1996-1997 1998 1999-2001 2002-2003 2004	Mercatone Uno MG-Technogym Asics Mapei Fassa Bortolo Team CSC
Major wins
UCI Road World Cup (1997, 1998) Giro d'Italia, 2 stages Tirreno-Adriatico (1999) Amstel Gold Race (2002) Giro di Lombardia (2002, 2003) GP Ouest-France (2000) Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1997, 1998) La Flèche Wallonne (1999) Ronde van Vlaanderen (1996) Züri-Metzgete (1998)
Infobox last updated on:
January 14, 2007

Michele Bartoli (born May 27, 1970 in Pisa) is a retired Italian road cyclist. He was a single-day race specialist, and was a two-time champion of the Union Cycliste Internationale World Cup series.

He turned professional in 1992 with the Mercatone Uno team and in 1995 moved to the MG-Technogym team of Giancarlo Ferretti. After a brief stint with the Asics team in 1998 he joined the Italian super-squad Mapei from 1999 to 2001.

Bartoli was injured for some time, during which a feud with his former super-domestique Paolo Bettini started as Bettini started to rise to prominence with important wins and wanted a leadership role. The feud culminated in the 2001 World Cycling Championship during which the two refused to collaborate which contributed to Óscar Freire of Spain winning the world title. He left Mapei to re-join Ferretti at Fassa Bortolo for 2002-2003. He retired at the end of the 2004 season with Team CSC, citing lack of motivation.

Bartoli is widely considered to be the most complete classics rider in recent years. He has won a wide variety of classics, starting with the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Omloop "Het Volk" cobbled races in 1996 and 2001 respectively, and hilly races such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1997 and 1998, HEW Cyclassics in 1997, Züri-Metzgete in 1998, La Flèche Wallonne in 1999, and the Amstel Gold Race in 2002. He won the Giro di Lombardia twice in a row in 2002 and 2003.

In addition, he was the Italian national champion in 2000, and has won several short stage races such as the Tirreno-Adriatico, Tour de Reggio Calabria and Three Days of De Panne.

One notable omission from his list of victories in the UCI World Cycling Championship, although he has made several notable attempts.

• 1992 - Mercatone Uno

• 1993 - Mercatone Uno

• 1994 - Mercatone Uno
  • Freccia del Brabante
  • GP Cerami
  • 1 stage, Giro d'Italia
  • Criterium d'Abruzzo

• 1995 - Mercatone Uno
  • 1 stage, Three Days of De Panne

• 1996 - MG Technogym
  • Giro di Reggio Calabria + 1 stage
  • 1 stage, Tirreno-Adriatico
  • Ronde van Vlaanderen (World Cup)
  • Giro del L'Emilia

• 1997 - MG Technogym
  • 1 stage, Tour de Mediterranèe
  • 1 stage, Tirreno-Adriatico
  • Liège-Bastogne-Liège (World Cup)
  • Overall, UCI Road World Cup

• 1998 - Asics CGA
  • 2 stages, Tour de Mediterranèe
  • 1 stage, Giro di Calabria
  • Giro di Reggio Calabria
  • Three Days of De Panne
  • Liège-Bastogne-Liège (World Cup)
  • 1 stage, Giro d'Italia
  • Züri-Metzgete (World Cup)
  • Overall, UCI Road World Cup

• 1999 - Mapei QuickStep
  • La Flèche Wallonne
  • Tirreno Adriatico
  • 1 stage, Ruta del Sol
  • 1 stage, Vuelta Valenciana

• 2000 - Mapei QuickStep
  •  Italy National Road Race Champion
  • GP Ouest-France

• 2001 - Mapei QuickStep
  • Het Volk

• 2001 - Fassa Bortolo

• 2002 - Fassa Bortolo
  • Tour de Mediterranèe + 1 stage
  • Amstel Gold Race (World Cup)
  • Milano-Torino
  • Giro di Lombardia (World Cup)

• 2003 - Fassa Bortolo
  • Giro di Lombardia (World Cup)

• 2004 - CSC

• Cyclingnews.com interview.

Preceded by Johan Museeuw

UCI Road World Cup Champion 1997, 1998

Succeeded by Andrei Tchmil

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