Daniele Nardello

Daniele Nardello is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist, born on 2 August 1972 in Varese. His career ran from 1994 to 2009. He is best remembered for winning the Italian national road race championship in 2001 and the Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2003. At the Tour de France he finished in the top ten overall three years in a row and also won a stage. Olympedia records that he rode the men's individual road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics for Italy, finishing 35th, and lists his club affiliation then as Team T-Mobile. He stood 181 centimetres tall and weighed 74 kilograms. His long career at the top level of European road racing makes him a representative figure of the Italian riders who were active in the peloton from the mid-1990s through the 2000s.