Description
Enrico Gasparotto is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team Astana, which he joined in 2009. Born in Sacile, Gasparotto turned professional in 2005 with Liquigas-Bianchi and stayed with the team for three years.
At the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Gasparotto led his Liquigas squad to a stage 1 Team time trial win and wore the pink jersey the following day.
Gasparotto achieved his first Classics victory at the 2012 Amstel Gold Race; he won the race in an uphill finish, after �scar Freire was caught 90 m before the finish line, and Gasparotto out-sprinted Lotto-Belisol's Jelle Vanendert and Peter Sagan of Liquigas-Cannondale. One week later, he took part in Li�ge?Bastogne?Li�ge, finishing third by beating a small group to the sprint in a race won by fellow Astana teammate, Maxim Iglinsky. At the Vuelta a Espana, bad luck hit Gasparotto and the Astana squad on the very first stage, a 16.5 km Team Time Trial held in Pampeluna. His team-mates Paolo Tiralongo, Alexsandr Dyachenko, Andrey Zeits and Gasparotto himself crashed in an accident that was not picked up by the television cameras.
Born
March 22nd, 1982 in Sacile (Age 42)
Last Changes
2012/01/08
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2012/01/08
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2011/03/31
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