Cesare Benedetti is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI Professional Continental Team NetApp-Endura. Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the Team NetApp team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the Liquigas team. Benedetti, and Team NetApp, made their Grand Tour d�but at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing, by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race. Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela's Miguel �ngel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage. [More at Wikipedia]

August 3rd, 1987 in Rovereto (Age 37)