Gianluca Bortolami

Gianluca Bortolami

Personal information
Full name	Gianluca Bortolami
Born	(1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 Locate di Triulzi, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1990–1993	Diana–Colnago–Animex
1994–1996	Mapei–CLAS
1997–1998	Festina–Lotus
1999–2003	Vini Caldirola
2004–2005	Lampre
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1994) One-Day Races and Classics Tour of Flanders (2001) Wincanton Classic (1994) Züri-Metzgete (1994) Giro del Piemonte (1997) Grand Prix de Fourmies (2002) Coppa Bernocchi (1997) Other UCI Road World Cup (1994)

Gianluca Bortolami (born 28 August 1968) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Bortolami's greatest feats was capturing the monumental classic Tour of Flanders in 2001 and winning the 1994 UCI Road World Cup season championship. He is the namesake of Bortolami's Pizzeria in Vancouver, Washington.

Bortolami was born in Locate di Triulzi, province of Milan. He competed in the road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He turned professional in 1990 and rode for Lampre. He finished 75th in the 2002 Tour de France, 46th in the 1997 Tour, 13th in the 1994 Tour with one stage win, and 73rd in the 1993 Tour. He was tested positive for cortisone in 2003 during Three Days of De Panne. He was suspended for six months by the Italian cycling federation.

Major results

1990

1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain

1991

1st Stage 4a Tour of Britain

1992

Volta a Portugal

1st Stages 10 & 11

1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie

1993

1st Cronostaffeta

6th Milano–Torino

1994

1st UCI Road World Cup

1st Giro del Veneto

1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

1st Leeds International Classic

1st Züri-Metzgete

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

2nd Paris–Tours

2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies

2nd Trofeo Matteotti

5th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

7th Brabantse Pijl

1995

1st Prologue Tour DuPont

3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne

3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

5th Tour of Flanders

9th Amstel Gold Race

10th Paris–Roubaix

1996

2nd Paris–Roubaix

2nd Nice–Alassio

8th Amstel Gold Race

1997

1st Coppa Bernocchi

1st Giro del Piemonte

1st Trofeo dello Scalatore

2nd Overall Volta a Galega

1st Stage 5

2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies

3rd Rochester International Classic

4th Overall Route du Sud

5th Giro dell'Emilia

1998

1st Gran Premio di Chiasso

2nd Omloop Het Volk

2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

4th Trofeo Laigueglia

9th Paris–Roubaix

9th Tour of Flanders

1999

Tour of Austria

1st Stages 1 & 2

2000

3rd Giro di Toscana

2001

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Sparkassen Giro Bochum

1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Brixia Tour

3rd Tre Valli Varesine

5th Tour du Haut Var

6th Coppa Bernocchi

8th Trofeo Laigueglia

2002

1st Giro della Romagna

1st Grand Prix de Fourmies

1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

1st Milano–Vignola

2nd Coppa Placci

2nd Coppa Bernocchi

3rd Giro del Piemonte

5th Gran Premio Fred Mengoni

7th Giro del Veneto

9th Overall Tour of Qatar

9th Trofeo Melinda

2003

2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne

1st Stage 1

2004

1st Giro della Romagna

6th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

7th Overall Tour of Belgium

1st Stage 1

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Giro d'Italia	123	16	64	55	51	—	DNF	34	—	—	96	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	73	13	DNF	—	46	—	—	DNF	—	75	—	—	DNF
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

External links

• Gianluca Bortolami at trap-friis.dk
• Profile by world-of-cycling.com