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Cesare Benedetti

Road racing cyclist

Field	Value
name	Cesare Benedetti
image	Rund um Köln 2018 011.jpg
caption	Benedetti in 2018.
fullname	Cesare Benedetti
birth_date
birth_place	Rovereto, Italy
height	1.70 m
weight	63 kg
discipline	Road
role	Rider
ridertype	Breakaway specialist
proyears1	2009
proteam1	De Nardi
proyears2	2009
proteam2	→ (stagiaire)
proyears3	2010–2024
proteam3
majorwins	Grand Tours

: Giro d'Italia ::1 individual stage (2019)

Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian-born Polish former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2024, spending his entire career with .

Career

Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the team.

Benedetti, and , made their Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing, by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race. Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after 's Miguel Ángel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage.

He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta a España.

Benedetti took his first individual professional victory at stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Having been part of a 25-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, he took the stage win leading a small group sprint in a late comeback after having been dropped in the last hill climb.

Personal life

Benedetti's wife is Polish. He is fluent in Polish and was granted Polish citizenship in April 2021.

During the 2021 season, Benedetti started competing under a Polish licence.

Major results

;2005 : 6th Overall Giro della Lunigiana ;2007 : 2nd Gran Premio Sportivi Podenzano : 3rd Trofeo Città di Brescia : 3rd Trofeo FTP Tapparo : 4th Gran Premio Industria Commercio Artigianato – Botticino : 4th Targa d'Oro Città di Legnano : 9th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto ;2008 : 1st Trofeo Edil C : 2nd Coppa Stignani : 2nd Trofeo Filtri : 3rd Milano–Busseto : 4th Coppa Caduti di Reda : 5th Trofeo G.S. Gavardo Tecmor : 5th Medaglia Oro Angelo Fumagalli : 9th GP Città di Felino ;2009 : 2nd Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza : 3rd Gran Premio San Luigi : 6th Overall Girobio : 8th Città di Conegliano : 9th GP Inda : 10th Trofeo Eco del Chisone ;2010 : 1st Plombières : 8th Memorial Van Coningsloo ;2011 : 8th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich ;2012 : 1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ;2014 : 9th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake ;2015 : Giro del Trentino ::1st Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 (TTT) ;2016 : 1st Mountains classification, Tirreno–Adriatico : 7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano : 10th Rudi Altig Race ;2017 : Giro d'Italia

;2018 : 3rd Overall [Okolo Slovenska](2018-okolo-slovenska) ;2019 : 1st Stage 12 [Giro d'Italia](2019-giro-d-italia) ### Grand Tour general classification results timeline ::data[format=table] | Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Giro d'Italia | Tour de France | Vuelta a España | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | [107](2012-giro-d-italia) | — | — | — | — | [115](2017-giro-d-italia) | [108](2018-giro-d-italia) | [74](2019-giro-d-italia) | [94](2020-giro-d-italia) | [103](2021-giro-d-italia) | [120](2022-giro-d-italia) | [102](2023-giro-d-italia) | | | | | | — | — | — | — | [128](2016-tour-de-france) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | | | | | — | — | — | — | [93](2016-vuelta-a-espana) | [DNF](2017-vuelta-a-espana) | — | — | — | [107](2021-vuelta-a-espana) | — | — | | | | | :: ::data[format=table title="Legend"] | — | DNF | |---|---| | Did not compete | | | Did not finish | | :: ## References ## References 1. (12 October 2018). ["With Christoph Pfingsten, BORA – hansgrohe completes its roster for 2019"](https://www.bora-hansgrohe.com/en/press/argonnews201810kader-04/argonnews201810kader-04/59094710). *Denk Pro Cycling GmbH & Co. KG*. 2. Ryan, Barry. (28 December 2019). ["2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe"](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/team-preview-bora-hansgrohe/). *[[Future plc]]*. 3. ["Bora - Hansgrohe"](https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15235/1001554/279). *[[Union Cycliste Internationale]]*. 4. (10 July 2009). ["Cesare Benedetti (UCB) sarà stagista alla Liquigas-Doimo"](http://www.bicibg.it/01news/dettaglio.asp?id1=7&idN=1613&pgn=2). *Duemilacom S.r.l.*. 5. ["Team NetApp (APP) – GER"](http://62.50.72.82/ucinet/default.asp?page=UCITeamsdetail&discipline=ROA&continent=ALL&teamscategory=&teamstype=PCT&year=2012&teamnameid=3353&npage=&search=&l=ENG). *[[Union Cycliste Internationale]]*. 6. (25 April 2012). ["Highly-motivated Team NetApp takes aim at Giro d'Italia"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/highly-motivated-team-netapp-takes-aim-at-giro-ditalia). *Future Publishing Limited*. 7. (12 May 2012). ["A quick chat with Cesare Benedetti"](http://www.teamnetapp.com/en/news/detailview/news/a-quick-chat-with-cesare-benedetti/). *NetApp Deutschland GmbH*. 8. Robinson, Mark. (11 May 2012). ["Rubiano solos to Giro d'Italia stage win in Porto Sant'Elpidio"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/giro-ditalia/stage-6/results). *Future Publishing Limited*. 9. ["2016 > 103rd Tour de France > Startlist"](http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=163736&c=3). *ProCyclingStats*. 10. ["71st Vuelta a España"](http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Vuelta_a_Espana_2016_Startlist). *ProCyclingStats*. 11. ["Giro d'Italia: Benedetti wins stage 12"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/giro-ditalia/stage-12/results/). 12. [https://kolarsko.pl/2021/04/21/cesare-benedetti-z-polskim-obywatelstwem/ Cesare Benedetti z polskim obywatelstwem] on Kolarsko.pl, 21 April 2021. 13. ["Cesare Benedetti (POL)"](https://www.lavuelta.es/en/rider/52/bora-hansgrohe/cesare-benedetti). *[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Benedetti) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Benedetti?action=history). ::

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