Matteo Bono (born 11 November 1983) is an Italian former

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

, who competed professionally for through various team iterations between 2006 and 2018. During his career, he took three professional victories – stage wins at the

2007 Tirreno–Adriatico The 2007 Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race took place from 14 March to 20 March 2007. The event was won by German Andreas Klöden of the , who combined good time-trialling and climbing skills to take the race lead on the penultimate stage. Teams Tw ...

, the

2007 Tour de Romandie The 2007 Tour de Romandie served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the 2007 UCI ProTour. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was Thomas Dek ...

and the

2011 Eneco Tour The 2011 Eneco Tour was the seventh running of the Eneco Tour cycling stage race. It started with an individual time trial in Amersfoort in the Netherlands on 8 August and finished on 14 August 2011 in Sittard-Geleen, also in the Netherlands. The ...

Career

Born in

Iseo Iseo may refer to: Acronyms * International Sustainable Energy Organization (ISEO) Places Italy * Iseo, Lombardy, a ''comune'' in the Province of Brescia * Lake Iseo, a lake in the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Lombardy * Provaglio d'Ise ...

, Bono turned professional in 2006 with . He took his first professional wins in 2007, winning stage six at

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 ...

– soloing away from his breakaway companions

Enrico Gasparotto Enrico Gasparotto (born 22 March 1982) is an Italian-born Swiss former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2020, for seven different teams. After retiring, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continent ...

and Giovanni Visconti with remaining – and stage three of the

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ...

, having been in a breakaway with

Fumiyuki Beppu Fumiyuki Beppu (; born 10 April 1983) is a Japanese former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . His older brother is the cyclist Takumi Beppu. Career Team Discovery (2005–2007) Beppu turned professional with in ...

and

Marco Pinotti Marco Pinotti (born 25 February 1976 in Osio Sotto, Lombardy) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist, Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champio ...

before outsprinting Beppu on the line. Between those victories, Bono also finished third at the

Klasika Primavera The Klasika Primavera () is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Amorebieta, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1946 as ''Gran Premio de Primavera'', it is now he ...

, behind teammates

Joaquim Rodríguez Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver (born 12 May 1979) is a Spanish cyclist, who competed in road bicycle racing between 2001 and 2016 for the , , and teams. Following his retirement from road racing, Rodríguez has competed in mountain bike racing and ...

and

Alejandro Valverde Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish cyclist, who competed as a professional in road bicycle racing from 2002 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2022, and now competes in gravel cycling for the Movistar Team Gravel Squad. During ...

. Bono did not win another race for another four years, until he won the penultimate stage of the

Eneco Tour The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the ori ...

from a three-man breakaway in August 2011, holding off the main field by six seconds. Throughout the remainder of his career, Bono largely worked as a

domestique In road bicycle racing, a domestique is a rider who works for the benefit of their cycling team, team and leader, rather than trying to win the race. In French, ''domestique'' translates as "servant".However, in French, the term used is ''équip ...

, before retiring at the end of the 2018 season.

Major results

Source: ;2004 : 4th

Gran Premio della Liberazione Gran Premio della Liberazione is an Italian road bicycle race that has been held annually on 25 April since 1946. It marks the anniversary of the 1945 fall of Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. It is a Single-day race that is rated 1.2 ...

: 8th

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

{{reflist Cycle races in Italy UCI Europe Tour ...

;2005 : 1st Trofeo Città di Brescia : 4th

Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza The Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza (also known as Trofeo PIVA) is a professional cycling race held annually in the Province of Vicenza, Italy. It has been part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle ra ...

: 7th

Trofeo Franco Balestra Trofeo Franco Balestra is a road bicycle race held annually in Italy. It is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. ''1977–2005: Memorial Sabbadini2006- : Memorial Giampietro Metelli'' Winners ...

;2007 : 1st Stage 6

: 1st Stage 3

: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (; ), officially abbreviated TdP, is an annual, professional men's Race stage, multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages and is usually around 1,200 km ...

: 3rd

;2011 : 1st Stage 5

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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* * * * 1983 births Living people People from Iseo, Lombardy Italian male cyclists Cyclists from the Province of Brescia 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-cycling-bio-1980s-stub