Gianluca Bortolami

Gianluca Bortolami is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, born on 28 August 1968 in the province of Milan. He rode the road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics, turned professional in 1990 with the Lampre team, and became known mainly as a rider of the classic one-day races. His greatest victory was the 2001 Tour of Flanders, one of the monuments of the sport, and he also won the 1994 UCI Road World Cup season championship. In stage racing he finished 13th in the 1994 Tour de France with one stage win, and he rode the Tour again in 1993, 1997 and 2002. In 2003 he tested positive for cortisone at the Three Days of De Panne and was suspended for six months by the Italian cycling federation.