Damiano Caruso
Damiano Caruso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam. Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national champion for the road race.Career
Born in Ragusa, Sicily, Caruso has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the, and teams, before joining for the 2011 season. In October 2011, the Italian National Olympic Committee requested for Caruso to be suspended from competition for two years, although backdated from December 2010, in relation to a doping offence in 2007. He was given a backdated one-year ban in February 2012, allowing for him to return to competition without being banned, but all his 2011 results were voided. Caruso held the lead of the young rider classification at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, after 's Peter Stetina lost time on the eighth stage.
In August 2014 Caruso signed a multi-year deal with the. At the end of 2014, Caruso scored a top-10 placing in the Vuelta a España, finishing ninth in the general classification. In 2015, Caruso finished eighth of the Giro d'Italia. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France, riding the race every year since.
In August 2018 announced that Caruso would join them from 2019 on a two-year contract, with a continued focus on riding as a domestique in Grand Tours and to take opportunities as a team leader in some shorter stage races.Major results
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;2019Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | 24 | 19 | — | 8 | — | — | — | 23 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 53 | 22 | 11 | 20 | 58 |
| Vuelta a España | 74 | — | — | 9 | — | — | 109 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
