Roberto Petito (born 1 February 1971) is an Italian former professional

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 common ...

. Petito was born in Civitavecchia. His most important win came in 1997, when he won the Tirreno–Adriatico. He has also finished in the top five in classics such as the Tour of Flanders or Paris–Roubaix, as well as the overall in the 2006 edition of the

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

Career achievements

Major results

;1992 : 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni ::1st Stage 3 ;1994 : 1st Giro della Romagna : 2nd Gran Piemonte ;1995 : 2nd Overall Tour Méditerranéen : 6th Overall

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...

;1997 : 1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna : 1st Overall

Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali The Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ( en, International Week of Coppi and Bartali), also known as Coppi e Bartali, is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically in late March over five days in the Emilia-Romagna region of Ital ...

: 7th Wincanton Classic : 7th Overall Tour of Galicia : 9th Overall

Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ...

;1998 : 5th Trofeo Laigueglia : 8th La Flèche Wallonne : 9th

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...

;1999 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th

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. It was created after the disappearance of Giro dell'Umbria, held b ...

;2000 : 2nd Trofeo Laigueglia : 9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ;2001 : 1st Trofeo Pantalica : 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 5 : 1st Stage 1 Giro d'Abruzzo : 4th Trofeo Laigueglia : 4th G.P. Costa degli Etruschi : 8th Overall Giro della Liguria ;2003 : 9th Trofeo Matteotti : 10th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ;2004 : 1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico : 5th Tre Valli Varesine : 7th Firenze–Pistoia ;2005 : 4th GP Lugano : 5th Tour of Flanders : 5th Overall Driedaagse van De Panne–Koksijde : 8th Milano–Torino ;2006 : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 6th Giro di Toscana : 10th Tour of Flanders ;2007 : 5th Paris–Roubaix

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* 1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Civitavecchia Italian male cyclists Cyclists from Lazio {{Italy-cycling-bio-1970s-stub