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Place of Birth: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
About Michele Bartoli
- Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist.
- Bartoli was a professional 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.
- 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.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").
- 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.
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