Cycling oldie finds new team: Pozzovivo beckons Giro record at the age of 41
Thomas Goldmann
· 26.02.2024
Domenico Pozzovivo: Where it all began 19 years ago
Domenico Pozzovivo started his professional career with Ceramica Panaria - Navigare in 2005. The team to which Pozzovivo belonged until 2012 is now called VF Group-Bardiani CSF - Faizane. At the last minute, so to speak, the 41-year-old Italian has now signed a one-year contract with manager Roberto Reverberi's team.
It feels like the script from a film, but returning to the team where I started my professional career 19 years ago has finally become a reality - Domenico Pozzovivo
The climbing specialist from Policoro in southern Italy was already extremely late in the last two years when it came to signing new contracts. He only signed on with Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert in mid-February 2022 and with Israel-Premier Tech in early March 2023.
Previous teams of Domenico Pozzovivo
- 2005 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare
- 2006 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare
- 2007 Ceramica Panaria - Navigare
- 2008 CSF Group - Navigare
- 2009 CSF Group - Navigare
- 2010 Colnago - CSF Inox
- 2011 Colnago - CSF Inox
- 2012 Colnago CSF Bardiani
- 2013 AG2R La Mondiale
- 2014 AG2R La Mondiale
- 2015 AG2R La Mondiale
- 2016 AG2R La Mondiale
- 2017 AG2R La Mondiale
- 2018 Bahrain-Merida
- 2019 Bahrain-Merida
- 2020 NTT Pro Cycling
- 2021 Team Qhubeka ASSOS
- 2022 Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert
- 2023 Israel-Premier Tech
- 2024 VF Group-Bardiani CSF - Faizane
Will Domenico Pozzovivo set a record at the Giro d'Italia?
Pozzovivo's main task with his new employer is to guide the young riders - including at the Giro d'Italia in May, where the second-division rider will start with a wild card. It would be Pozzovivo's 18th participation in the Tour of Italy. This would equal the record set by his compatriot Wladimiro Panizza between 1967 and 1985.
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"Beating Panizza's record is one of the main motivations," Pozzovivo told the Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. "I also had to abandon the Giro d'Italia last year and couldn't even start in the Tour of Lombardy. That would have been a very sad farewell," said the cycling veteran, who added: "And to be clear. I'm not thinking of quitting after the Giro 2024, but at the end of the season after the Tour of Lombardy."
Domenico Pozzovivo's greatest successes
- 1 stage win Giro d'Italia 2012
- 5th place overall in the Giro d'Italia 2014 & 2018
- Overall victory Giro del Trentino 2012
- 1 stage win Tour de Suisse 2017
- 1 stage win in the Tour of Catalonia 2015
- 3 stage wins in the Giro del Trentino 2015, 2012 & 2012
- Overall victory Brixia Tour 2010
