Gianluca Brambilla (born 22 August 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for

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. He started his professional career in 2010 with .

Career

Born in

Bellano Orrido di Bellano. Bellano (Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and historic small town on the eastern shore of Lake Como in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located at northern outlet of the Valsassina. Geography Bell ...

, Brambilla began his professional career in 2010 with the team, moving to in 2013. He was also a member of the Ormesani Panni and Zalf Desirèe Fior teams as an amateur, winning numerous domestic races. At the

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, Brambilla finished fourth in the

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as well as taking a fourth place stage finish during Stage 18 to

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. Brambilla took two further top-ten places at the 2012 edition of the race, placing tenth on the seventh stage, and seventh on the eighth stage. In September 2014, Brambilla was ejected from the

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during the 16th stage after trading blows with Russian cyclist Ivan Rovny. In 2016, he won Stage 8 of the

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, which netted him the Pink Jersey. He did so from an early breakaway. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the

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. In February 2021, Brambilla won the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var stage race. He had done well on the first two stages, managing to keep pace with race leaders, and was well-placed going into the third and final stage in 17th place, but only 13 seconds behind then-race leader

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. He was a part of the day's main breakaway group of 16 riders. As the breakaway began to disintegrate on the slopes of the last categorized climb, the Col de la Madone, Brambilla attacked, with only

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able to follow. With around 11 kilometers left, he attacked again, and this time Madouas was unable to keep up. Brambilla pushed on over the last climb, the uncategorized Col de Nice, and managed to hold on for the stage win. Despite Woods' best efforts to maintain his lead, he and Brambilla's teammate

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finished in a group 18 seconds behind Brambilla, giving the Italian the overall win.

Major results

;2006 : 3rd Overall Giro del Veneto Juniors ;2007 : Giro del Veneto Juniors ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT) & 4 : 5th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia : 9th Giro del Belvedere ;2008 : 1st

Gran Premio Palio del Recioto The Gran Premio Palio del Recioto is a professional one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Unio ...

: 3rd

Trofeo Zsšdi Trofeo Zsšdi-Unione dei Circoli Sportivi Sloveni in Italia is a road bicycle race held annually in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The trophy is contested around Trieste, near the frontier between Italy and Slovenia. Since 2005, it is classified ...

: 4th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin : 5th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza : 6th Overall Giro delle Regioni : 9th

GP Capodarco The GP Capodarco is a European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Capodarco, a city ward of Fermo, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Winners ...

: 10th

Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano The Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano is an under-23 one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2U. Winners References

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;2009 : 1st Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia : 1st Coppa Città di San Daniele : 2nd Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd

: 3rd Giro della Valli Aretine : 3rd

Ruota d'Oro The Ruota d'Oro is a professional one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2U. It was held as a stage race from 1978 to 1990. Winners References

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: 7th

: 10th Giro del Medio Brenta ;2010 (1 pro win) : 1st

Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie The Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Arona, Italy between 1997 and 2015. It was held primarily as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle ra ...

: 6th

Gran Premio di Lugano The Gran Premio di Lugano () is a road bicycle race held annually in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to 1981 it was held as an individual time trial but in recent years it has been organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...

;2011 : 4th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese : 4th Giro della Romagna : 6th

Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano was a single day race in the historic region of Insubria, Switzerland. The race was established in 2009 as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race replaced the former Gran Premio di Chiasso The Gran Premio ...

;2012 : 1st Stage 1b ( TTT) Giro di Padania : 2nd

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: 4th

Trofeo Laigueglia The Trofeo Laigueglia is an early season road bicycle race held annually in Liguria, Italy. It is held about ten days after the opening to the Italian season, the Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi. From 2005 to 2014, the race was organised as a ...

: 4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano : 7th

: 7th Memorial Marco Pantani : 8th

Trofeo Melinda Trofeo Melinda was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing com ...

: 10th

Giro dell'Emilia The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. First run in 1909, the race is considered a classic cycle race, and is traditionally grouped with the Giro del Piemonte and Giro di Lombard ...

;2014 : 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana ;2015 : 6th Overall

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: 10th

Giro di Lombardia The Giro di Lombardia (), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five 'Cycling monument, Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in cycli ...

: 10th La Drôme Classic ;2016 (3) : 1st Trofeo Pollenca–Port de Andratx :

::1st Stage 8 ::Held after Stages 8–9 : 1st Stage 15

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd

Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...

: 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 6th

Clásica de San Sebastián The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the m ...

: 7th Overall

Vuelta a Burgos Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos (province), Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In ...

: 8th

Tre Valli Varesine The Tre Valli Varesine is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Varese, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2021 it joined the UCI ProSeries calendar after being cancelled in 2020. A ...

: 10th Overall Tour of Oman ;2017 : 8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 8th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2018 : 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 5th Memorial Marco Pantani : 8th Overall Tour of Croatia : 10th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race : 10th

;2019 : 6th Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta : 10th

::Held after Stage 12 ;2020 : 9th Overall

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of th ...

: 10th

;2021 (2) : 1st Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var ::1st Stage 3 : 6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;2022 : 8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : 9th Overall

Tour de l'Ain Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional cycling stage race held in eastern France. G.P. de l'Amitié The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.). It was held over f ...

;2023 : 7th Overall

Vuelta a Asturias Vuelta Asturias is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early May each year. The event was first run in 1925 but has not been held consistently until 1968 to present. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI ...

: 9th

Giro della Toscana The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will ...

: 9th

Trofeo Matteotti Trofeo Matteotti is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Pescara, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions whic ...

: 10th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : 10th

Giro del Veneto The Giro del Veneto is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the region of Veneto, Italy. Since 2023, the race has been on the UCI ProSeries calendar, having previously been a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits ...

;2024 : 5th Overall AlUla Tour : 6th

Milano–Torino Milano–Torino is a semi classic European single day cycling race, between the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin over a distance of 199 kilometres. The event was first run in 1876 making it the oldest classic race in the world. The ...

: 9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano : 10th

Vuelta a Murcia The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia () is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs. Originally the race was held in early March and consisted of five stages. However, due to Spain's fina ...

: 10th Memorial Marco Pantani

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brambilla, Gianluca Italian male cyclists 1987 births Living people Cyclists from the Province of Lecco Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Italian Vuelta a España stage winners 21st-century Italian sportsmen