The Milanese all-rounder is the only man on the team besides Gaviria who knows what it takes to win a Grand Tour stage, having outfoxed a three-man break in Genoa at the 2022 Giro. Signed from Cofidis for 2026, he finally swaps a career of six Giri for his first Tour de France at 28, with a roving brief: work for Gaviria in the chaos, then hunt stages from the breaks.
Palmarès
- Giro d'Italia stage 12 winner (2022)
- Six Giro d'Italia participations (2020–2025)
- Combativity award, stage 4 Giro d'Italia (2022)
- Italian junior time trial champion (2016)
Cut-out factGenoa 2022 made him a Giro stage winner — but until this July, the man from cycling-mad Lombardy had never once raced the Tour de France.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Fernando Gaviria, Abel Balderstone, Sebastian Berwick, Alex Molenaar, Joel Nicolau, Jakub Otruba, José Félix Parra — see the full Caja Rural team page.
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