Jakub Mareczko

Jakub Mareczko (born 30 April 1994) is a Polish road cyclist, who rides for Mazowsze Serce Polski. A sprinter, Mareczko was described by the Italian national cycling coach Davide Cassani as one of the best young hopes for Italian cycling.

Career

Mareczko was born in Poland on 30 April 1994; he moved with his mother to Brescia, Italy, when he was five years old.

Southeast Pro Cycling (2015–18)

It was announced that Mareczko had signed his first professional contract with the then in July 2014. Racing as an amateur cyclist in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, he won 16 races and came to the attention of Davide Cassani. He was the most successful under-23 rider in Italy in 2014. Mareczko was seen as one of the major hopes for , which had been in significant trouble on account of repeated doping cases; the team also signed the veteran sprinter Alessandro Petacchi with the hope that he would be able to help Mareczko to develop as a cyclist (in particular to get stronger on the climbs), as well as potentially leading him out in the sprints.

Mareczko's first wins as a professional cyclist came in the 2015 Vuelta al Táchira (a 2.2 race where many of the riders are amateurs), where he won stages 3 and 4. He was then selected to lead the Italian national team in the sprint stages at the Tour de San Luis, where he twice finished in the top ten, including a third place on the final stage behind Mark Cavendish and Fernando Gaviria. He started both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne but finished neither. He finished third on the second stage of the Tour de Langkawi, then finished second on the fourth and sixth stages. Mareczko's cobbled classics season then continued with his participation in Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, the Three Days of De Panne and the Scheldeprijs, although he finished none of these races. Mareczko won two stages at the Vuelta a Venezuela, a 2.2-ranked race. His first professional-level victory came at the end of the 2015 road racing season, when he won the sixth stage of the 2.HC-ranked Tour of Hainan. A few days before this victory, announced that his contract had been renewed for the following two seasons. It was followed by more victories in China: at the 2.1-ranked Tour of Taihu Lake, Mareczko won all seven of the nine stages to end in bunch sprints. He also won the general classification, the points classification and the young rider classification.

He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, but abandoned the race on Stage 5.

Post-Southeast (2019–present)

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España, recording a best stage finish of third place on the fourth stage. The following month, he signed a two-year contract with the team, from the 2021 season. However, folded at the end of the 2021 season, and Mareczko joined for the 2022 season.

At the 2022 ZLM Toer Mareczko won the bunch sprint for Stage 2 however, he was relegated soon after and Olav Kooij named as the winner. Mareczko won the following day's stage into , and ultimately finished the race second overall, behind Kooij.

Major results

;2014
: 1st Circuito del Porto
;2015 (9 pro wins)
: 1st Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
::1st Points classification
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 & 9
: Vuelta al Táchira
::1st Stages 3 & 4
: Vuelta a Venezuela
::1st Stages 2 & 9
: 1st Stage 6 Tour of Hainan
;2016 (11)
: 1st Tour of Yancheng Coastal Wetlands
: Tour of Qinghai Lake
::1st Stage 2, 11 & 13
: Presidential Tour of Turkey
::1st Stages 5 & 8
: Tour of Taihu Lake
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 6
: 1st Stage 7 Tour de San Luis
: 1st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi
: 1st Stage 3 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
: 3rd Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
: 10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
;2017 (13)
: 1st Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
::1st Points classification
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7
: Tour of Hainan
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
: Tour de Langkawi
::1st Stages 3 & 7
: 1st Stage 3 Tour de Bretagne
;2018 (7)
: Tour du Maroc
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 10
: Sharjah Tour
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 2 & 4
: Tour of Taihu Lake
::1st Stages 3, 5 & 7
: 1st Stage 5 Tour of China II
: 1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan
;2019
: 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
: 6th Primus Classic
;2020 (3)
: Tour de Hongrie
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
;2021 (2)
: 1st Trofej Umag
: 1st Stage 1a Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
: 6th Gran Piemonte
;2022 (3)
: Tour of Antalya
::1st Points classification
::1st Stage 4
: 1st Stage 4 Tour de Langkawi
: 2nd Overall ZLM Toer
::1st Stage 3
: 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
;2023 (1)
: 1st Stage 2 ZLM Tour
: 1st Stage 5 Tour de Bretagne
: 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
: 5th Bredene Koksijde Classic
: 7th Van Merksteijn Fences Classic
;2024 (2)
: 1st Circuito del Porto
: 1st Stage 1b International Tour of Hellas
: 1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan
: 2nd GP Adria Mobil
: 3rd Trofej Umag

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mareczko, Jakub
1994 births
Living people
Italian male cyclists
Italian people of Polish descent
Cyclists from Brescia
Polish emigrants to Italy
Cyclists from Subcarpathian Voivodeship
People from Jarosław
21st-century Italian sportsmen