Cesare Benedetti

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Born
1987 (38 years old)
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Rovereto, Italy

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Cyclist

Status
Retired

Ethnicity
White

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Height
1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Weight
63 kg (139 lb)

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Cesare Benedetti (born 3 August 1987) is an Italian-born Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.

Career
Born in Rovereto, Benedetti has competed as a professional since 2010, competing for the Team NetApp team since turning professional. He was also a member of the GS Gavardo Tecmor and De Nardi teams as an amateur, and also spent the second half of the 2009 season as a stagiaire with the Liquigas team.

Benedetti, and Team NetApp, made their Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, where Benedetti exceeded the team's expectations of a top ten stage placing, by taking fifth place during the sixth stage of the race. Benedetti had been part of an eleven-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, but after Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela's Miguel Ángel Rubiano went clear, Benedetti remained with another three riders to the end of the stage.

He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta a España.

Benedetti took his first individual professional victory at stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Having been part of a 25-rider breakaway at the start of the stage, he took the stage win leading a small group sprint in a late comeback after having been dropped in the last hill climb.

Personal life
Benedetti's wife is Polish. He is fluent in Polish and was granted Polish citizenship in April 2021.

During the 2021 season, Benedetti started competing under a Polish licence.

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