Rinaldo Nocentini

Rinaldo Nocentini

Nocentini at the 2012 Tour de Pologne
Personal information
Full name	Rinaldo Nocentini
Born	25 September 1977 Montevarchi, Italy
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Team information
Current team	Sporting Clube de Portugal/Tavira
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Puncheur
Professional team(s)
1999–2001	Mapei–Quick-Step
2002	Fassa Bortolo
2003	Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé
2004–2006	Acqua & Sapone
2007–2015	AG2R Prévoyance
2016	Sporting Clube de Portugal/Tavira
Major wins
GP Miguel Indurain (2007)
Infobox last updated on 28 August 2016

Rinaldo Nocentini (born 25 September 1977) is an Italian racing cyclist with UCI Continental Tour team Sporting Clube de Portugal/Tavira.

In the 2009 Tour de France, his first participation in the race, he became leader in the General Classification after participating in a stage-long breakaway on stage 7 to take the yellow jersey from Fabian Cancellara with an overall time six seconds ahead of the second-place rider in the General Classification, Alberto Contador. He wore the yellow jersey for eight stages before relinquishing it to Contador at the end of stage 15.

Career achievements

Major results

1995

3rd World U19 Road Race World Championship

1998

2nd World U23 Road Race Championship

1999

1st Stage 9 Tour de Langkawi

1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi

2003

1st Giro della Toscana

1st Mountains Classification Tour of Austria

2004

1st Stage 5 Tour of Poland

3rd Giro dell'Appennino

3rd Giro dell'Emilia

2005

1st Subida al Naranco

2nd Coppa Sabatini

3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

2006

1st Giro dell'Appennino

1st Giro del Veneto

1st Coppa Placci

2nd GP Fred Mengoni

2nd Tre Valli Varesine

3rd Trofeo Laigueglia

2007

1st GP Miguel Indurain

1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen

2008

1st Gran Premio di Lugano

2nd Overall Paris–Nice

2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var

4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

10th Giro dell'Emilia

2009

1st Stage 7 Tour of California

Tour de France

Held Maillot Jaune for 8 days from stages 7–14 Tour de France

7th GP Plumelec-Morbihan

9th Overall Critérium International

10th Flèche Wallonne

2010

1st Stage 1 Tour du Haut Var

2nd Overall Tour Méditerranéen

2011

3rd Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano

3rd Overall Tour du Haut Var

6th Overall Tour de Pologne

7th GP Lugano

9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

10th GP Miguel Indurain

2012

4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

5th Overall Critérium International

6th Overall Tour de Pologne

6th Overall Tour of Beijing

9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

9th Amstel Gold Race

2013

3rd Strade Bianche

3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

4th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi

5th Overall Tour of Oman

10th La Flèche Wallonne

2014

2nd Milano-Torino

8th Overall Tour of Beijing

10th Giro di Lombardia

2015

5th Stage 4 Tirreno-Adriatico

7th Stage 18 Giro d'Italia

8th Teamprologue Tour of Austria

6th Stage 13 Vuelta

2016

2nd Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro	64	66	-	60	34	-	-	47	56	-	-	70	-	-	-	73	-
Tour	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	98	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	WD	53	-	18	53	96	85	-

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

External links

Media related to Rinaldo Nocentini at Wikimedia Commons

• Rinaldo Nocentini at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)
• Rinaldo Nocentini profile at Cycling Archives
• Rinaldo Nocentini on PCS