Matteo Bono
 Bono at the 2009 Tour Down Under. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Matteo Bono |
| Born | 11 November 1983 Iseo, Italy |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Domestique |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2002–2005 | Colibri–Unidelta |
| 2005 | Lampre–Caffita (stagiaire) |
| Professional team | |
| 2006–2018 | Lampre–Fondital |
Matteo Bono (born 11 November 1983) is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for UAE Team Emirates through various team iterations between 2006 and 2018. During his career, he took three professional victories – stage wins at the 2007 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2007 Tour de Romandie and the 2011 Eneco Tour.
Career
Born in Iseo, Bono turned professional in 2006 with Lampre–Fondital. He took his first professional wins in 2007, winning stage six at Tirreno–Adriatico – soloing away from his breakaway companions Enrico Gasparotto and Giovanni Visconti with 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) remaining[1] – and stage three of the Tour de Romandie, having been in a breakaway with Fumiyuki Beppu and Marco Pinotti before outsprinting Beppu on the line.[2] Between those victories, Bono also finished third at the Klasika Primavera, behind Caisse d'Epargne teammates Joaquim Rodríguez and Alejandro Valverde.[3]
Bono did not win another race for another four years, until he won the penultimate stage of the Eneco Tour from a three-man breakaway in August 2011, holding off the main field by six seconds.[4] Throughout the remainder of his career, Bono largely worked as a domestique,[5][6] before retiring at the end of the 2018 season.[7]
Major results
Source:[8]
- 2004
- 4th Gran Premio della Liberazione
- 8th Ruota d'Oro
- 2005
- 1st Trofeo Città di Brescia
- 4th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
- 7th Trofeo Franco Balestra
- 2007
- 1st Stage 6 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Pologne
- 3rd Klasika Primavera
- 2011
- 1st Stage 5 Eneco Tour
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
139 | — | 123 | 86 | — | 99 | — | 77 | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
|
— | 117 | — | — | 93 | — | DNF | — | 118 | 136 | 111 |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | 143 | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ^ Brown, Gregor (19 March 2007). "King Bono of San Giacomo". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Westemeyer, Susan (4 May 2007). "Bono sprints to soggy stage win". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Results - Amorebieta - Amorebieta - 171 km". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. 15 April 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Turner, Jonathan (14 August 2011). "Bono makes break count". Sky Sports. Sky UK. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Atkins, Ben (9 November 2013). "Matteo Bono, Davide Cimolai and Maximiliano Richeze all renew with Lampre-Merida". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
While Bono has become an indispensable domestique in his eight seasons with the team [...]
- ^ "Lampre Merida. Compleanno con rinnovo per Matteo Bono" [Lampre Merida. Birthday with renewal for Matteo Bono]. TuttoBici (in Italian). Prima Pagina Edizioni s.r.l. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Il Tour of Guangxi è stata l'ultima gara della carriera di Matteo Bono" [The Tour of Guangxi was the last race of Matteo Bono's career]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "Matteo Bono". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
External links
Media related to Matteo Bono at Wikimedia Commons- Matteo Bono at UCI
- Matteo Bono at ProCyclingStats
- Matteo Bono at Cycling Archives (archived)
