Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami (28 April 1922[1] – 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 while at Peugeot-BP-Dunlop around 1960 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Giuseppe Cerami | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Pino | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 April 1922[1] Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 September 2014 (aged 92) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 1937–45 | - | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Medal record
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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. He was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
Major results
editSource:[5]
- 1948
- 1st GP Frans Melckenbeeck
- 3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
- 7th Giro di Lombardia
- 8th overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 9th La Flèche Wallonne
- 1949
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1950
- 1st Championship of Hainaut
- 2nd GP Brabant Wallon
- 9th Milan–San Remo
- 1951
- 1st Tour du Doubs
- 1st Stages 3 & 5 Tour of Belgium
- 7th overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1952
- 3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
- 3rd Heistse Pijl
- 4th overall Tour de Suisse
- 7th overall Tour of Belgium
- 7th Omloop Het Volk
- 1953
- 1st Flèche Halloise
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 3rd overall Tour of Belgium
- 3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
- 10th overall Tour de Suisse
- 1954
- 1st Ninove
- 1st Stages 12, 13 & 14 (TTT) Tour d'Europe 1954
- 3rd Tour de Hesbaye
- 4th Dwars door België
- 7th overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1955
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest
- 1st GP Lucien Van Impe
- 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 2nd Memorial Fred De Bruyne
- 3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
- 1956
- 2nd Ronde van Brabant
- 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 10th La Flèche Wallonne
- 1957
- 1st
Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Omloop Het Volk
- 3rd Nokere Koerse
- 8th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1958
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Picardie
- 2nd Paris–Brussels
- 2nd Tour de Romandie
- 2nd Bordeaux–Paris
- 3rd Grand Prix des Ardennes
- 6th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Gent–Wevelgem
- 7thOmloop Het Volk
- 8th Tour of Flanders
- 1959
- 1st Grand Prix de la Famenne
- 3rd overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 3
- 7th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1960
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Flèche Wallonne
- 2nd Super Prestige Pernod
- 2nd Tour de Wallonie
- 3rd
Road race, UCI World Championships - 5th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1961
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Antwerpen-Ougrée
- 8th Bordeaux–Paris
- 1962
- 1st Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Championship of Hainaut
- 1st Antwerpen-Ougrée
- 1st Grand Prix de la Basse-Sambre
- 2nd Flèche Wallonne
- 1963
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de France
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2nd Weekend ardennais
- 2nd Tour du Doubs
- 2nd Trophée Stan Ockers
- 6th Flèche Wallonne
- 9th overall Tour of Belgium
Tour de France
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Slogblog - Slogblog Wielerblog".
- ^ "Palmarès de Pino Cerami (Bel)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "Oudste ritwinnaar en leider per grote ronde" (in Dutch). Cyclingbase. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
- ^ Oud-wielrenner Pino Cerami (92) overladen
- ^ "Pino Cerami". FirstCycling.com. 8 December 2023.