Damiano Caruso
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Caruso prior to starting the final stage of the 2012 Giro d'Italia
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Damiano Caruso |
| Born | 12 October 1987 Ragusa, Italy |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | BMC Racing Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2009 | LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini |
| 2010 | De Rosa–Stac Plastic |
| 2011–2014 | Liquigas–Cannondale |
| 2015– | BMC Racing Team |
| Major wins | |
| National Under-23 Road Race Championships (2008) | |
| Infobox last updated on 31 March 2014 |
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Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team. Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race.[1]
Career
Born in Ragusa, Sicily, Caruso has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini,[2] and De Rosa–Stac Plastic teams,[3] before joining Liquigas–Cannondale for the 2011 season.[4] In October 2011, the Italian National Olympic Committee requested for Caruso to be suspended from competition for two years, although backdated from December 2010, in relation to a doping offence in 2007.[5] He was given a backdated one-year ban in February 2012, allowing for him to return to competition without being banned, but all his 2011 results were voided.[6] Caruso held the lead of the young rider classification at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, after Garmin–Barracuda's Peter Stetina lost time on the eighth stage.[7]
In August 2014 Caruso signed a multi-year deal with the BMC Racing Team.[8] At the end of 2014, Caruso scored a top-10 placing in the Vuelta a España, finishing ninth in the general classification. In 2015, Caruso finished eighth of the Giro d'Italia.[9] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[10]
Palmarès
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- 2005
- 1st Overall, Tre Ciclistica Bresciana (junior)
- 1st, Stage 2
- 2007
- 4th Overall, Giro della Toscana
- 4th, Gran Premio Madonna delle Grazie
- 5th, G.P. Chianti Castello Guicciardini di Poppiano
- 5th, Trofeo Tempestini Ledo
- 8th, Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
- 9th, Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
- 2008
- 1st
National Under-23 Road Race Championships - 2nd Overall, Giro delle Valli Cuneesi nelle Alpi del Mare
- 2nd, Giro del Montalbano
- 3rd, Gran Premio Chianti Colline D'Elsa
- 3rd, Gran Premio Industria Commercio e Artigianato – Casini
- 3rd, Gran Premio Città di Saltino
- 4th, Parma–La Spezia
- 4th, La Ciociarissima
- 5th, Bassano–Montegrappa
- 5th, G.P. Chianti Castello Guicciardini di Poppiano
- 6th, Giro Del Canavese – Trofeo Sportivi Valperghesi
- 9th Overall, Tour de l'Avenir
- 9th, Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
- 2009
- 1st Overall, Giro Delle Pesche Nettarine Di Romagna
- 1st, Stage 5
- 1st, Trofeo Comune di Cafasse
- 1st, Stage 2, Girobio
- 3rd, G.P. Chianti Castello Guicciardini di Poppiano
- 4th, Parma–La Spezia
- 4th, Trofeo Banca Popolare Piva
- 4th, Milano–Rapallo
- 5th, Coppa Cicogna – G.P.Ristorante Pin-Rose
- 7th, Gran Premio Pretola
- 8th, Piccola Sanremo
- 9th, Trofeo Mario Zanchi
- 9th, Firenze–Empoli
- 2010
- 5th Overall, Giro di Sardegna
- 5th, Giro dell'Appennino
- 7th Overall, Brixia Tour
- 7th Overall, Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 10th Overall, Giro del Trentino
- 2011
4th Overall, Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria6th, Gran Premio Città di Camaiore- 7th, Japan Cup
- 2012
- 3rd Overall, Tour of Britain
- 8th, GP Miguel Indurain
- 9th, Giro di Toscana
- 2013
- 1st, Stage 5, Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour of Beijing - 3rd Overall, Tour of Alberta
- 2014
- 3rd Overall, Tour of Austria[8]
- 5th Overall, Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 6th Overall, Tour of Slovenia
- 9th Overall, Vuelta a España
- 2015
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de France (TTT)
- 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 9th Classic Sud-Ardèche[11]
- 2016
- 1st
Mountains Classification Vuelta a Andalucía - 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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 Giro |
- | 24 | 19 | - | 8 |
 Tour |
- | - | - | - | 53 |
 Vuelta |
74 | - | - | 9 |
WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress
See also
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- Italian male cyclists
- 1987 births
- Living people
- People from Ragusa, Italy
- Doping cases in cycling
- Italian sportspeople in doping cases
- Sportspeople from Sicily
- Vuelta a España cyclists
- Giro d'Italia cyclists
- Tour de France cyclists
