Salvatore Puccio

Salvatore Puccio (born 31 August 1989) is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[3]

Salvatore Puccio
Puccio in 2014
Personal information
Full nameSalvatore Puccio
Born (1989-08-31) 31 August 1989
Menfi, Italy
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Rouleur
  • Domestique
Professional team
2012–Team Sky[1][2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2013)
Vuelta a España
1 TTT stage (2016)

Career
Salvatore Puccio in first (time trial) stage Tour of Slovenia 2015.

Puccio was born at Menfi, in Sicily. He joined Team Sky ahead of the 2012 season,[4] after a 2011 season which included a solo victory in the under-23 Tour of Flanders race in April.[5][6]

Puccio made his Grand Tour debut at the 2013 Giro d'Italia. After Team Sky won the team time trial on stage two, Puccio took the race lead and wore the pink jersey on stage three, after being the highest placed Team Sky rider on stage one.[7] Puccio kicked off his season in 2018 with an entry in the Tour Down Under.[8]

Major results
2007
5th Overall Giro della Toscana Junior
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Giro della Lunigiana
2010
5th GP Pretola
5th Gran Premio San Giuseppe
6th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
9th Trofeo Edil C
2011
1st Ronde van Vlaanderen U23
2nd GP Pretola
2nd Giro del Belvedere
2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
4th Overall Giro della Toscana
1st Stage 3
4th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
5th GP Capodarco
2012
6th Trofeo Deià
2013
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
Held after Stage 2
2014
8th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
2015
7th Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Points classification[lower-alpha 1]
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Giro d'Italia 73 98 68 — 86 64 86 56 94 85 72
Tour de France Has not contested during his career
Vuelta a España DNF — 77 121 78 96 89 — 98 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Notes
  1. In October 2015, Davide Appollonio was stripped of his race results, following his suspension after a positive doping test for erythropoietin (EPO). As a consequence, Puccio was retroactively promoted one position in the standings.[9]

References
  1. "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. Cycling Weekly (2 January 2012). "Puccio signs for Sky". Cyclingweekly.com. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  5. "Puccio wins U23 Flanders". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 9 April 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  6. "Salvatore Puccio remporte le Tour des Flandres Espoirs 2011" [Salvatore Puccio won the Tour of Flanders 2011 Espoirs]. Tour of Flanders (in French). Flanders Classics NV. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  7. "Team Sky win team time trial". BBC Sport. BBC. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. "Bernal and Halvorsen lead Team Sky at Tour Down Under". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  9. "2015 Tour de Slovénie - Points Classification". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
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