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Italian cyclist

Massimo Podenzana
Personal information
Full name	Massimo Podenzana
Born	(1961-07-29) 29 July 1961 (age 63) La Spezia, Italy
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team Novo Nordisk
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Professional teams
1987–1989	Atala
1990–1992	Italbonifica-Navigare
1993–1994	Navigare-Blue Storm
1995	Brescialat
1996	Carrera Jeans
1997–2001	Mercatone Uno

Managerial teams
2002	Mercatone Uno
2003	Nippon Hodo
2004	Nippo
2005–2010	Ceramica Flaminia
2011–	Team Type 1–Sanofi Aventis

Major wins
Trofeo Melinda (1994) Giro di Toscana (1995) GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano (1999)

Massimo Podenzana (born 29 July 1961 in La Spezia) is an Italian former road racing cyclist. Podenzana won stages in both the Giro d'Italia, and the Tour de France, as well as a variety of other cycling classics.

Major results

1986: 1st, Giro della Valli Aretine
1988: 1st, Stage 4, Giro d'Italia
1991: 3rd, Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
1993: 1st, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore; 1st, Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato; 1st, National Road Race Championships; 2nd, Milano–Vignola
1994: 1st, National Road Race Championships; 1st, Trofeo Melinda; 7th, Overall, Giro d'Italia
1995: 1st, Giro di Toscana; 3rd, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore; 3rd, Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
1996: 1st, Stage 15, Tour de France; 2nd, Trofeo Melinda; 3rd, Trofeo Matteotti; 3rd, Clásica de San Sebastián
1997: 3rd, Giro dell'Appennino
1998: 2nd, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
1999: 1st, GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

External links

Massimo Podenzana at Cycling Archives (archived)
Official Tour de France results for Massimo Podenzana

v t e Italian National Road Race Champion (men)
1880–1899	Giuseppe Loretz (1885) Geo Davidson (1886) Gilberto Marley (1887–1889) Carlo Braida (1890) Ambrogio Robecchi (1891) Luigi Cantu (1892) Giuseppe Moreschi (1893) Giovanni Da Montelatico (1896)
1900–1919	Giovanni Cuniolo (1906–1908) Dario Beni (1909) Emilio Petiva (1910) Dario Beni (1911) Not attributed (1912) Costante Girardengo (1913–1914, 1919)
1920–1939	Costante Girardengo (1920–1925) Alfredo Binda (1926–1929) Learco Guerra (1930–1934) Gino Bartali (1935) Giuseppe Olmo (1936) Gino Bartali (1937) Olimpio Bizzi (1938) Mario Vicini (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Adolfo Leoni (1941) Fausto Coppi (1942) Mario Ricci (1943) Severino Canavesi (1945) Aldo Ronconi (1946) Fausto Coppi (1947) Vito Ortelli (1948) Fausto Coppi (1949) Antonio Bevilacqua (1950) Fiorenzo Magni (1951) Gino Bartali (1952) Fiorenzo Magni (1953–1954) Fausto Coppi (1955) Giorgio Albani (1956) Ercole Baldini (1957–1958) Diego Ronchini (1959)
1960–1979	Nino Defilippis (1960) Arturo Sabbadin (1961) Nino Defilippis (1962) Bruno Mealli (1963) Guido De Rosso (1964) Michele Dancelli (1965–1966) Franco Balmamion (1967) Felice Gimondi (1968) Vittorio Adorni (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970–1971) Felice Gimondi (1972) Enrico Paolini (1973–1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Franco Bitossi (1976) Enrico Paolini (1977) Pierino Gavazzi (1978) Francesco Moser (1979)
1980–1999	Giuseppe Saronni (1980) Francesco Moser (1981) Pierino Gavazzi (1982) Moreno Argentin (1983) Vittorio Algeri (1984) Claudio Corti (1985–1986) Bruno Leali (1987) Pierino Gavazzi (1988) Moreno Argentin (1989) Giorgio Furlan (1990) Gianni Bugno (1991) Marco Giovannetti (1992) Massimo Podenzana (1993–1994) Gianni Bugno (1995) Mario Cipollini (1996) Gianni Faresin (1997) Andrea Tafi (1998) Salvatore Commesso (1999)
2000–2019	Michele Bartoli (2000) Daniele Nardello (2001) Salvatore Commesso (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Cristian Moreni (2004) Enrico Gasparotto (2005) Paolo Bettini (2006) Giovanni Visconti (2007) Filippo Simeoni (2008) Filippo Pozzato (2009) Giovanni Visconti (2010–2011) Franco Pellizotti (2012) Ivan Santaromita (2013) Vincenzo Nibali (2014–2015) Giacomo Nizzolo (2016) Fabio Aru (2017) Elia Viviani (2018) Davide Formolo (2019)
2020–2039	Giacomo Nizzolo (2020) Sonny Colbrelli (2021) Filippo Zana (2022) Simone Velasco (2023) Alberto Bettiol (2024)

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