Matteo Tosatto

Italian cyclist (born 1974)

Rider (retired)
Directeur sportif

Rider typeClassics specialistProfessional teams1997MG Maglificio–Technogym1998–1999Ballan2000–2005Fassa Bortolo2006–2010Quick-Step–Innergetic2011–2016Saxo Bank–SunGard Managerial team2017–Team Sky Major winsGrand Tours

Tour de France

1 individual stage (2006)

Giro d'Italia

1 individual stage (2001)

Matteo Tosatto (born 14 May 1974 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian former road racing cyclist.^[1] He rode as a professional between 1997 and 2016, with his biggest personal victories coming in stages of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.^[2] He contested 34 Grand Tours during his career, making him the rider with most participations^[3] and finishing 28 of them.

Following his retirement, Tosatto became a directeur sportif with Team Sky, beginning midway through the 2017 cycling season.^[4]

Major results

1996: 1st Stage 9 Girobio
1997: 7th Rund um Köln
1998: 1st Giro del Medio Brenta; 3rd Overall Tour of Austria; 5th Veenendaal–Veenendaal; 5th GP Rik Van Steenbergen
1999: 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami; 7th Brabantse Pijl; 9th Clásica de Almería
2000: 1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice; 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm; 3rd Giro della Romagna; 6th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
2001: 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
2002: 1st Coppa Placci; 3rd Trofeo Matteotti; 3rd Coppa Bernocchi; 4th Criterium d'Abruzzo; 5th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli; 6th Trofeo Melinda; 10th Giro della Romagna
2003: 5th Giro del Piemonte
2004: 1st Giro di Toscana; 1st GP Kanton Aargau Gippingen; 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali; 2nd Giro del Veneto; 2nd Giro della Romagna; 3rd Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca; 4th Coppa Bernocchi; 7th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
2006: 1st Stage 18 Tour de France; 7th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
2007: 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Qatar
2008: 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Qatar; 4th Giro del Lazio
2009: 9th Memorial Cimurri
2011: 8th Giro del Friuli
2012: 7th Paris–Roubaix

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	—	—	43	DNF	50	63	DNF	107	122	—	94	—	—	56	136	104	—	—	112	107
Tour de France	132	—	—	—	60	—	—	110	—	125	108	96	114	—	123	—	92	119	132	145
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	134	—	DNF	DNF	—	DNF	DNF	67	—	135	115	120	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ "Team Saxo-Tinkoff (TST) – DEN". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
^ "Matteo Tosatto". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^ Wynn, Nigel (28 July 2017). "Team Sky appoints former Tinkoff pro Matteo Tosatto as sports director". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ "Matteo Tosatto wordt sportdirecteur bij Team Sky" [Matteo Tosatto becomes a sporting director at Team Sky]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Flemish). Belga. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.