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Andrea Moletta
Personal information
Full name	Andrea Moletta
Born	(1979-02-23) 23 February 1979 (age 45) Cittadella, Italy
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current team	Miche-Silver Cross
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
2003	Mercatone Uno
2004	Barloworld
2005–2008	Gerolsteiner
2009	Miche-Silver Cross

Andrea Moletta (born 23 February 1979 in Cittadella, Province of Padua) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Continental team Miche-Silver Cross.

In March 2007, Moletta crashed badly in the Milan-San Remo race, and it was thought that his season would be over. However, six months later Moletta was recovered and started in the 2007 Vuelta a España.^[1]

During the 2008 Giro d'Italia, Moletta's father was caught with Viagra and unidentified fluids, and as result of this, Moletta's team Gerolsteiner withdrew Moletta from racing.^[2] Viagra was not banned in competition, so no formal doping charge was filed against Moletta, although the doping authorities (WADA) were looking at the matter.^[3] Later it was found that the fluids were the hormone Lutelef, which can be used as a new form of blood doping.^[4] Moletta was later cleared from any wrongdoing.^[5]

He has previously played for Team Braloworld (2004), Mercatone Uno (2003), and Fassa Bortolo (2001).^[6]

Since 2009, Moletta rides for Miche-Silver Cross.^[7]

Palmares

2000: 4th Trofeo Zsšdi
2001: 6th Overall Ster Elektrotoer; 6th Circuito Belvedere; 7th Trofeo Alcide Degasperi
2002: 1st GP di Poggiana; 3rd Trofeo Zsšdi
2003: 1st Stage 6 Peace Race; 4th Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo; 9th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
2004: 3rd Giro del Friuli
2005: 4th San Francisco Grand Prix
2006: 2nd GP Miguel Induráin; 10th GP Lugano
2008: 10th GP Miguel Induráin
2009: 6th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria; 7th Overall Okolo Slovenska; 7th Memorial Marco Pantani; 8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

Notes and references

^ Decaluwé, Brecht (3 September 2007). "Andrea Moletta: Coming back one day at a time". Cycling news. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ Westemeyer, Susan; Brown, Gregor (22 September 2008). "Gerolsteiner's forgotten riders". Cycling news. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ Weislo, Laury (23 May 2008). "Riders using Viagra for altitude?". Cycling news. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ Farrand, Stephen (30 October 2009). "Italian investigation discovers new blood doping technique". Cycling weekly. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ Brown, Gregor (5 November 2008). "Moletta cleared, but without team". Cycling news. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ "Andrea Moletta". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^ Andrea Moletta at Cycling Archives (archived)

External links

Andrea Moletta at ProCyclingStats

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