Riccardo Chiarini (born 20 February 1984) is an Italian
mountainbike
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r and former professional
road bicycle racer
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, who last rode for
UCI Professional Continental
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team . He is a native of
Faenza
Faenza (, ; ; or ; ) is an Italian city and comune of 59,063 inhabitants in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated southeast of Bologna.
Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed earthenware pottery, known ...
.
Doping
Chiarini tested positive for
EPO in an out of competition test 7 May 2014, and received a two-year doping ban.
Riccardo Chiarini tested positive for EPO
cape-epic.com 12 June 2014
Palmarès
;2007
:7th Coppa Placci
:10th Tre Valli Varesine
;2010
:1st 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 ...
:4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie – Coppa Papà Carlo
:4th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
The Gran Premio Città di Camaiore was a road bicycle race held in Camaiore, Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital cit ...
:6th Overall Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
:6th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
:7th Classica Sarda
:10th Overall Brixia Tour
;2011
:7th Giro dell'Emilia
:8th Memorial Marco Pantani
:9th Overall Tour of Turkey
:10th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
:10th Overall Giro di Padania
: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 ...
;2012
:2nd Overall Giro di Padania
:5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
:7th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland.
The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...
:7th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
:8th Overall Route du Sud
Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
References
External links
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Italian male cyclists
Sportspeople from Faenza
Cyclists from the Province of Ravenna
Doping cases in cycling
Italian sportspeople in doping cases
1984 births
Living people
21st-century Italian sportsmen
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