{{short description|Italian cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Marco Velo | image = Marco Velo - Tour de Romandie 2010, Stage 3.jpg | caption = Velo at the 2010 Tour de Romandie | fullname = Marco Velo | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1974|3|9}} | birth_place = Brescia, Italy | height = {{height|m=1.84|precision=0}} | weight = {{convert|70|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | currentteam = | discipline = Road | role = Rider | ridertype = Time trialist | proyears1 = 1996–1997 | proteam1 = {{UCI team code|BRE|1996}} | proyears2 = 1998–2001 | proteam2 = {{UCI team code|MER|1998}} | proyears3 = 2002–2005 | proteam3 = {{UCI team code|FAS|2002}} | proyears4 = 2006–2008 | proteam4 = {{UCI team code|MRM|2006}} | proyears5 = 2009–2010 | proteam5 = {{UCI team code|QST|2009}} | majorwins = '''One-day races and Classics''' :National Time Trial Championships<br>(1998, 1999, 2000) }}
'''Marco Velo''' (born 9 March 1974) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
== Professional career == Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, was seen as a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. From 2002, Velo rode as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team, but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team, but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006.<ref>[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/velo-wants-to-follow-tosatto Velo wants to follow Tosatto]</ref><ref>[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/velo-confirms-with-domina-vacanze Velo confirms with Domina Vacanze]</ref><ref>[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-and-zabel-to-new-german-italian-team Petacchi & Zabel to new German/Italian team?]</ref> For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team.<ref>[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/quick-step-signings Quick Step signings]</ref>
==Major results== Source:<ref>{{cycling Archives|7955}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=22em}} ;1997 : 1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino : 7th Overall Critérium International : 8th Tour du Haut Var ;1998 : 1st 20px Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st 20px Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ::1st Stage 4b (ITT) : 1st Firenze–Pistoia : 4th Giro del Piemonte : 6th Grand Prix des Nations : 7th Trofeo Pantalica ;1999 : 1st 20px Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Gran Premio de Llodio : 1st Firenze–Pistoia : 2nd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato : 2nd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa : 5th GP Miguel Induráin : 5th Trofeo Melinda : 6th Japan Cup : 7th La Flèche Wallonne : 7th Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta : 8th Giro di Lombardia : 9th Coppa Placci : 10th Amstel Gold Race ;2000 : 1st 20px Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Memorial Cecchi Gori : 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana : 9th Coppa Bernocchi ;2001 :<s>1st 20px Time trial, National Road Championships</s>{{efn|Disqualified due to a doping infraction.}} ;2002 : 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Serhiy Honchar) ;2005 : 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : 3rd Giro di Toscana : 6th Coppa Bernocchi : 7th Trofeo Luis Puig : 9th Giro della Provincia di Lucca ;2006 : 1st Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (with Fabio Sacchi) {{div col end}}
===Grand Tour general classification results timeline===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col" | Grand Tour ! scope="col" | 1996 ! scope="col" | 1997 ! scope="col" | 1998 ! scope="col" | 1999 ! scope="col" | 2000 ! scope="col" | 2001 ! scope="col" | 2002 ! scope="col" | 2003 ! scope="col" | 2004 ! scope="col" | 2005 ! scope="col" | 2006 ! scope="col" | 2007 ! scope="col" | 2008 ! scope="col" | 2009 ! scope="col" | 2010 |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey Giro d'Italia |81 |30 |20 |DNF |DNF |11 | — |21 |100 |103 | — | — |87 | — |108 |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey Tour de France | — | — | — | — |39 | — |54 |DNF |DNF | — |97 | — |42 | — | — |- style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" | 20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey/20px|link=|alt=A red jersey Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — |57 | — |114 |DNF |118 |117 | — |93 | — |}
{| class="wikitable" |+ Legend |- ! scope="row" | — | Did not compete |- ! scope="row" | DNF | Did not finish |}
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == *{{Sports links}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070816124011/http://www.marcovelo.it/ Personal website {{in lang|it}}] *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110551/http://www.team-milram.com/en/team_rider_details.asp?riderID=31 Profile at Team Milram official website]}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Velo, Marco}} Category:Italian male cyclists Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:Cyclists from Brescia
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