Jonathan Milan

Jonathan Milan

Milan during the 2023 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Nickname	The Italian Stallion
Born	(2000-10-01) 1 October 2000 (age 24) Tolmezzo, Italy
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lidl–Trek
Disciplines	Track Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter (road) pursuitist (track)
Professional teams
2019–2020	Cycling Team Friuli[1]
2021–2023	Team Bahrain Victorious[2][3]
2024–	Lidl–Trek
Major wins
Road Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Points classification (2023, 2024) 4 individual stages (2023, 2024) Track Olympic Games Team pursuit (2021) World Championships Team pursuit (2021) Individual pursuit (2024)
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  Italy Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit 2024 Paris Team pursuit World Championships 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit 2024 Ballerup Individual pursuit 2021 Roubaix Individual pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit 2023 Glasgow Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2023 Glasgow Individual pursuit European Championships 2021 Grenchen Individual pursuit 2023 Grenchen Individual pursuit 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit 2020 Plovdiv Individual pursuit 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit 2020 Plovdiv 1 km time trial 2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit European Under-23 Championships 2020 Fiorenzuola Team pursuit

Jonathan Milan (born 1 October 2000) is an Italian professional track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.^[4]

Milan rode in the men's team pursuit event at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin, Germany, winning a bronze medal.^[5] He won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, setting a new world record.^[6] He was also on the winning team for the team pursuit at the UCI World Championships that year, also taking silver in the individual pursuit. In 2022, Milan won silver medals at the World Championships in both the team and individual pursuit, followed by a silver and bronze medal in 2023, respectively.

Milan rode for Cycling Team Friuli as an under-23 rider in 2019 and 2020, and was crowned the 2020 national under-23 time trial champion.

In 2021, he stepped up to the World Tour, joining Team Bahrain Victorious. The following season, he won his first pro road races, taking two stages of the CRO Race. He took an early season win in 2023 on stage two of the Saudi Tour, before competing in the Giro d'Italia in May, his first Grand Tour.^[7] Milan won the stage two sprint, going on to finish second on four more occasions. He ultimately won the Points classification ahead of Derek Gee.^[8] He ended the year at the Tour of Guangxi in October, where he won the second stage.^[9]

In February 2024, Milan won stage 3 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, his first race of the season.^[10] He then won two stages of Tirreno–Adriatico in March.^[11] This was followed by a campaign in the spring classics, where he finished in 5th in Gent–Wevelgem and 7th in the Dwars door Vlaanderen. His next race was the Giro d'Italia for the second year in a row, where he again saw success early on, taking second on stage three before winning the following day.^[12]

Grand Tour	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	103	118
Tour de France	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—

He is named after the seagull in Richard Bach's novella 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull,' which his mother read during her pregnancy.^[13]

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• Jonathan Milan at UCI
• Jonathan Milan at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Jonathan Milan at ProCyclingStats
• Jonathan Milan at CycleBase
• Jonathan Milan at Olympics.com
• Jonathan Milan at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Jonathan Milan at Olympedia