Salvatore Commesso
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Commesso at the 2007 Tour of Britain
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Salvatore Commesso |
| Nickname | Toto |
| Born | March 28, 1975 Torre del Greco, Italy |
| Height | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1998–2004 | Saeco Macchine per Caffè |
| 2005–2006 | Lampre |
| 2007 | Tinkoff Credit Systems |
| 2008 | Preti Mangimi |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de France, 2 stages Italian National Road Race Champion (1999, 2002) |
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| Infobox last updated on June 5, 2008 |
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Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who most recently rode for UCI Professional Continental team Preti Mangimi.
He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he came in third in the Grand Prix Suisse and the Giro del Capo. He won the Italian National Championships and Stage 13 of the 1999 Tour de France in 1999.
Commesso won Stage 18 of the 2000 Tour de France and won the points competition in the Volta a Portugal in 2001.
In 2002, he again won the Italian Championship, as well as the Trofeo Matteotti and the Criterium d'Abruzzo.
He rode for the Saeco Macchine per Caffè team from 1998 to 2004. In 2005, the team merged with Lampre, with whom he came in second in the Giro del Veneto.
He rode for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and came in second in Stage 14.
Major achievements
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- 1998 – Saeco Macchine per Caffè
Turned professional.
- 3rd, Grand Prix Suisse
- 3rd, Giro del Capo
- 1999 – Saeco
- 1st, Stage 13 – Tour de France
Italian National Road Race Championship- Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2000 – Saeco
- 1st, Stage 18 – Tour de France
- 2001 – Saeco
- Points Classification – Volta a Portugal
- 2002 – Saeco
- Italian National Road Race Championship
- Trofeo Matteotti
- Criterium d'Abruzzo
- 2003 – Saeco
- 2004 – Saeco
- 2005 – Lampre-Caffita
- 2006 – Lampre-Fondital
- 2nd, Stage 14 – Tour de France (Stage Combativity Award)
References
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