Matteo Priamo

Matteo Priamo

Personal information
Full name	Matteo Priamo
Born	March 20, 1982 (1982-03-20) (age 29) Italy
Team information
Current team	Suspended
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2006–2008	Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
Major wins
Giro d'Italia, 1 stage (2008)
Infobox last updated on May 15, 2008

Matteo Priamo (born March 20, 1982 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, previously of UCI Professional Continental team CSF Group-Navigare.

Priamo's CSF Group-Navigare teammate Emanuele Sella, who had won three stages and the mountains classification at the 2008 Giro d'Italia, tested positive for methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (better known as Mircera, an erythropoietin derivative) at an out-of-competition control run by the UCI.^[1] After confessing to his doping^[2] he named Priamo as his supplier. Though the Italian National Anti-Doping tribunal originally exonerated Priamo,^[3] the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled, upon appeal by the Italian National Olympic Committee, that he should be suspended for four years.^[4]

Palmarès

2007 – Panaria-Navigare

1st, Stage 2, Circuit de Lorraine

2008 – CSF Group-Navigare

1st, Stage 3 and 5, Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey

1st, Stage 6, Giro d'Italia

References

1. ^ Jeff Jones and Gregor Brown (2008-08-05). "Emmanuele Sella positive for EPO". BikeRadar.com. http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/emmanuele-sella-positive-for-epo-17903. Retrieved 2009-11-15. 
2. ^ Agence France Presse (2008-08-08). "Sella tells CONI he used EPO". VeloNews. http://www.velonews.com/article/81475/sella-tells-coni-he-used-epo. Retrieved 2009-11-15. 
3. ^ Laura Weislo and Sue George (2009-02-28). "Priamo exonerated, Sella "told the truth"". Cycling News. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/feb09/feb28news. Retrieved 2009-11-22. 
4. ^ VeloNation Press (2009-11-12). "CAS gives Priamo a four-year ban". Velo Nation. http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/2208/CAS-gives-Priamo-a-four-year-ban.aspx. Retrieved 2009-11-15. 

External links

• Matteo Priamo profile at Cycling Archives

Persondata
Name	Priamo, Matteo
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1982-03-20
Place of birth	Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Date of death
Place of death