Michele Bartoli

Michele Bartoli
	Bartoli at the 2009 Tour of Flanders
Personal information
Full name	Michele Bartoli
Nickname	Il Leoncino delle Fiandre (in Italian); (The Little Lion of Flanders) (in English)
Born	27 May 1970 (age 54); Pisa, Italy
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional teams
1992–1995	Mercatone Uno–Medeghini–Zucchini
1996–1997	MG–Technogym
1998	Asics–CGA
1999–2001	Mapei-Quick Step
2002–2003	Fassa Bortolo
2004	Team CSC
Major wins
	Grand Tours; Giro d'Italia 2 individual stages (1994, 1998) Stage races Three Days of De Panne (1995, 1998) Tirreno–Adriatico (1999) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2000) Giro di Lombardia (2002, 2003) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1997, 1998) Tour of Flanders (1996) La Flèche Wallonne (1999) Amstel Gold Race (2002) Rund um den Henninger Turm (1997) Brabantse Pijl (1994, 1999) Giro dell'Emilia (1996, 2002) Züri-Metzgete (1998) GP Ouest-France (2000) Omloop Het Volk (2001) Milano–Torino (2002) Giro del Lazio (2003) Other UCI Road World Cup (1997, 1998)
Medal record
Representing Italy
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races.^[1] On his palmarès are three of the five monuments of cycling—five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings.^[2]

Considered one of the most versatile riders of his generation, Bartoli won a variety of classics. He won most of the major Italian one-day races—apart from Milan–San Remo—and was Italian national champion in 2000. In Belgium, he excelled in both the cobbled classics of Flanders and the hilly races in the Ardennes, which earned him the nickname Il Leoncino delle Fiandre ("The Little Lion of Flanders").^[3] In addition to the classics, Bartoli has also won stage races, such as Tirreno–Adriatico and the Three Days of De Panne, and won two stages in the Giro d'Italia. He finished third in the world championships of 1996 and 1998.^[4]

^ "New tricks for an experienced pro". cyclingnews.com. 9 April 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
^ Historic data of the World Rankings & World Cup Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Bartoli, il Leoncino delle Fiandre sta tornando". sport.sky.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference Worlds 98 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] "New tricks for an experienced pro". cyclingnews.com. 9 April 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2007.

[2] Historic data of the World Rankings & World Cup Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Bartoli, il Leoncino delle Fiandre sta tornando". sport.sky.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2017.

[Worlds_98-4] Cite error: The named reference Worlds 98 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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