Matteo Bono


Matteo Bono is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for through various team iterations between 2006 and 2018. During his career, he took three professional victories – stage wins at the 2007 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2007 Tour de Romandie and the 2011 Eneco Tour.

Career

Born in Iseo, Bono turned professional in 2006 with. He took his first professional wins in 2007, winning stage six at Tirreno–Adriaticosoloing away from his breakaway companions Enrico Gasparotto and Giovanni Visconti with remaining – and stage three of the Tour de Romandie, having been in a breakaway with Fumiyuki Beppu and Marco Pinotti before outsprinting Beppu on the line. Between those victories, Bono also finished third at the Klasika Primavera, behind teammates Joaquim Rodríguez and Alejandro Valverde.
Bono did not win another race for another four years, until he won the penultimate stage of the Eneco Tour from a three-man breakaway in August 2011, holding off the main field by six seconds. Throughout the remainder of his career, Bono largely worked as a domestique, before retiring at the end of the 2018 season.

Major results

Source:
;2004
;2005
;2007
;2011

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017
Giro d'Italia139123869977
Tour de France11793DNF118136111
Vuelta a España143

Did not compete
DNFDid not finish