Giampaolo Caruso
Caruso at the 2015 Tour de France | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Giampaolo Caruso |
| Born | 15 August 1980 Avola, Italy |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional teams | |
| 2002–2006 | ONCE–Eroski |
| 2007 | Lampre–Fondital |
| 2008–2010 | Ceramica Flaminia–Bossini Docce |
| 2010–2015 | Team Katusha |
| Major wins | |
| One-day races and Classics | |
Giampaolo Caruso (born 15 August 1980) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2015 for the Würth, Lampre–Fondital, LPR Brakes–Ballan, Ceramica Flaminia and Team Katusha squads.
During his professional career, Caruso took five victories – all coming in Italy – with three stage wins and the general classification at the 2009 Brixia Tour, and a one-day race success at the 2014 Milano–Torino. He was also twice suspended for doping violations – in 2003, he was given a six-month ban for the use of nandrolone at the 2003 Tour Down Under, and in 2015, he was banned for two years after a positive drugs test for erythropoietin (EPO) recorded three years earlier.