Salvatore Commesso
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Salvatore Commesso |
| Date of birth | March 28, 1975 (age 32) |
| Country |  Italy |
| Height | 1.64 m |
| Weight | 66 kg |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Tinkoff Credit Systems |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1998-2004 2005-2006 2007- |
Saeco Lampre Tinkoff Credit Systems |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de France, 2 stages National Champion (1999, 2002) |
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| Infobox last updated on: | |
| January 30, 2007 | |
Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian road bicycle racer.
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 team in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, the team merged with Lampre, with whom he came in second in the Giro del Veneto.
He is riding for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and came in second in Stage 14. Commesso, Toto to his friends, is best known for his love of sleeveless jerseys and of ham.
Commesso is also the star of a weekly comic strip about professional bike racing, called As the Toto Turns, featured on the site nyvelocity.com.
[edit] Major achievements
- 2006 – Lampre-Fondital
- 2nd, Stage 14 – Tour de France (Stage Combativity Award)
- Italy National Road Race Championship
- Trofeo Matteotti
- Criterium d'Abruzzo
- 2001
- Points Classification – Volta a Portugal
- 2000
- 1st, Stage 18 – Tour de France
- 1999
- 1st, Stage 13 – Tour de France
- Italy National Road Race Championship
- 1998
His first year as a professional.
- 3rd, Grand Prix Suisse
- 3rd, Giro del Capo
| Riders on Tinkoff Credit Systems |
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Elio Aggiano | Pavel Brutt | Ilya Chernetskiy | Salvatore Commesso | Daniele Contrini | Tyler Hamilton | Danilo Hondo | Mikhail Ignatiev | Serguei Klimov | Ruggero Marzoli | Anton Mindlin | Evgeni Petrov | Ivan Rovny | Alexander Serov | Ricardo Serrano | Nikolai Trussov | Steffen Weigold |
| Manager |
| Stefano Feltrin |
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