Mattia Gavazzi

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Mattia Gavazzi (born 14 June 1983) is an Italian former road cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2016 for teams Team LPR, Template:Cycling data GAP, Template:Cycling data SDA, Template:Cycling data CSF, Template:Cycling data AND, Template:Cycling data CWO and two spells with Template:Cycling data AMO. In April 2010, Gavazzi was suspended by the Union Cycliste Internationale following a positive doping control for cocaine. He made his comeback in the 2013 Tour de San Luis.^[1] He is a specialist sprinter.

Biography

Mattia Gavazzi's father, Pierino Gavazzi, was also a professional rider.

He won a stage at the 2004 Girobio, the version of the Giro d'Italia for young amateur riders. He turned professional in 2006 for Team LPR, but joined the Template:Cycling data AMO team midway through the season. Following several good performances, he was signed by Template:Cycling data GAP for the following year. He secured six victories with them in 2007, including three at the Tour de Normandie, showing his talent as a sprinter.

In 2008 he remained with the same team, who became known as Template:Cycling data GAP. In February he achieved a second place in a stage of the Giro della Provincia di Grosseto, behind Danilo Napolitano and in front of Filippo Pozzato. The following month he was again second at the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, beaten by Francesco Chicchi. In April, he won a stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda, and in May the Giro di Toscana, beating Chicchi.

2009 saw him sign for Template:Cycling data SDA with immediate success. He won a stage at the Tour de San Luis and dominated at the Tour de Langkawi, winning four stages and the Points classification.

In 2010 he switched to Template:Cycling data BRD and scored his first victory of the year at a Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda stage in early April. However, a urine sample taken two days previously tested positive for the presence of cocaine, and this triggered a suspension by the sport's governing body. He had previously tested positive for cocaine, and received a 14-month suspension, as an amateur in 2004.^[2]

Gavazzi made his return at the 2013 Tour de San Luis, where he won the last stage by out sprinting Slovak Peter Sagan (Cannondale).^[3] In April, he won the Giro di Toscana, a hilly race where he edged Ivan Rovny and Taylor Phinney in the sprint.^[4] At the end of the 2013 season, Gavazzi terminated his contract with Template:Cycling data AND.^[5] Androni team manager Gianni Savio claimed that the split was due to Gavazzi demanding a guaranteed start for the 2014 Giro d'Italia. Gavazzi signed with the Template:Cycling data CWO team for the 2014 season.^[6]

On 12 April 2016, it was announced that Gavazzi had been provisionally suspended by the UCI for a cocaine positive taken at the 2015 Tour of Qinghai Lake. It was his third positive test to this substance during his career.^[7] He was given a four-year suspension, backdated to July 2015.^[8]