Michele Scarponi
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Scarponi at the 2014 Tour de San Luis
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Michele Scarponi |
| Nickname |
L'Aquila di Filottrano English: The Eagle of Filottrano |
| Born |
25 September 1979 Jesi, Marche, Italy |
| Died | 22 April 2017 (aged 37) Filottrano, Marche, Italy |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role |
Climbing specialist Domestique |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1988–1997 | Pieralisi |
| 1998–2000 | Zalf Euromobil Fior |
| 2001 | Site–Frezza |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2002 | Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo |
| 2003–2004 | Domina Vacanze–Elitron |
| 2005–2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
| 2007 | Acqua & Sapone–Caffè Mokambo |
| 2008–2010 | Diquigiovanni–Androni |
| 2011–2013 | Lampre–ISD |
| 2014–2017 | Astana |
| Major wins | |
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Michele Scarponi (25 September 1979 − 22 April 2017) was an Italian road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017 for the Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, Würth, Acqua & Sapone–Caffè Mokambo, Androni Giocattoli, Lampre–Merida and Astana teams. He was declared the winner of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after the disqualification of Alberto Contador. Other major results of his career were the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2011 Volta a Catalunya and the 2011 Giro del Trentino stage races.
Born in Jesi, Scarponi turned professional in 2002, with the Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo team, but they folded at the end of the season. He had taken his first victory with the team, winning a stage at the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda, en route to a second-place finish overall, and made his bow at a Grand Tour, finishing in eighteenth at the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Scarponi moved to the Domina Vacanze–Elitron team for the 2003 season; he won a stage at the Giro d'Abruzzo as he finished third in the final classification, and finished in the top-ten of the Amstel Gold Race (seventh) and Liège–Bastogne–Liège (fourth) – both races as part of the 2003 UCI Road World Cup. He again finished in the top-twenty at the Giro d'Italia in sixteenth, and finished thirteenth at the Vuelta a España.
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