Giuseppe 'Pino' Cerami
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| Full name | Giuseppe Cerami | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Pino | ||||||||||||
| Born |
28 April 1922 Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy |
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| Died | 20 September 2014 (aged 92) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist | ||||||||||||
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| 1937-45 | - | ||||||||||||
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| 1946-1947 | Independent | ||||||||||||
| 1948 | Metropole-Dunlop | ||||||||||||
| 1949-1954 | Peugeot-Dunlop | ||||||||||||
| 1955-1956 | Elvé-Peugeot | ||||||||||||
| 1957 | Peugeot-BP | ||||||||||||
| 1958 | Elvé-Peugeot-Marvan | ||||||||||||
| 1959-1962 | Peugeot-BP-Dunlop | ||||||||||||
| 1963 | Peugeot-BP | ||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||
| Tour de France, 1 stage (1963) Tour of Belgium (1957) Paris–Roubaix (1960) La Flèche Wallonne (1960) Paris–Brussels (1961) |
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Giuseppe 'Pino' Cerami (28 ? 1922 – 20 September 2014) was a Belgian road bicycle racer. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. Born in Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy he was naturalised as a Belgian on 16 March 1956.
Cerami won the 1960 Paris–Roubaix Classic with Tino Sabbadini of France second and Miguel Poblet of Spain in third place. Cerami also won La Flèche Wallonne Classic in 1960. Cerami was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade. At the 1963 Tour de France, Cerami won the 9th stage at 41 years old; Cerami is the oldest Tour de France stage winner ever.
Since 1964 the Grand Prix Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium. Cerami died on 20 September 2014 after a long illness.
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