Pino Cerami

Pino Cerami
Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Cerami
Nickname	Pino
Born	28 April 1922; Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy
Died	20 September 2014 (aged 92)
Team information
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
Major wins
	Tour de France, 1 stage (1963); Tour of Belgium (1957); Paris–Roubaix (1960); La Flèche Wallonne (1960); Paris–Brussels (1961)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Belgium
World Championships

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 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Major results[]

1951: 3rd stage Tour of Belgium; 5th stage Tour of Belgium
1954: 1st Ninove; 12th stage Tour of Europe; 13th stage Tour of Europe
1957: 1st stage Tour of Belgium; General Classification - Tour of Belgium
1958: 2nd stage Tour de Picardie
1959: 3rd stage Tour de Luxembourg
1960: Paris–Roubaix; Flèche Wallonne
1961: Paris–Brussels; Brabantse Pijl
1963: 9th stage Tour de France

Tour de France[]

1949 - did not finish
1957 - 35th
1958 - did not finish
1962 - 81st
1963 - did not finish; winner 9th stage

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Slogblog - Slogblog Wielerblog".
^ "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

External links[]

[bd-1] "Slogblog - Slogblog Wielerblog".

[2] "Oudste ritwinnaar en leider per grote ronde" (in Dutch). Cyclingbase. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.

[3] Oud-wielrenner Pino Cerami (92) overladen

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v t Paris–Roubaix winners
1880–1899	Josef Fischer (1896) Maurice Garin (1897–1898) Albert Champion (1899)
1900–1919	Émile Bouhours (1900) Lucien Lesna (1901–1902) Hippolyte Aucouturier (1903–1904) Louis Trousselier (1905) Henri Cornet (1906) Georges Passerieu (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Octave Lapize (1909–1911) Charles Crupelandt (1912) François Faber (1913) Charles Crupelandt (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Pélissier (1919)
1920–1939	Paul Deman (1920) Henri Pélissier (1921) Albert Dejonghe (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Jules Vanhevel (1924) Félix Sellier (1925) Julien Delbecque (1926) Georges Ronsse (1927) André Leducq (1928) Charles Meunier (1929) Julien Vervaecke (1930) Gaston Rebry (1931) Romain Gijssels (1932) Sylvère Maes (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934–1935) Georges Speicher (1936) Jules Rossi (1937) Lucien Storme (1938) Émile Masson Jr. (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Marcel Kint (1943) Maurice Desimpelaere (1944) Paul Maye (1945) Georges Claes (1946–1947) Rik Van Steenbergen (1948) André Mahé, Serse Coppi (1949) Fausto Coppi (1950) Antonio Bevilacqua (1951) Rik Van Steenbergen (1952) Germain Derycke (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Jean Forestier (1955) Louison Bobet (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Leon Vandaele (1958) Noël Foré (1959)
1960–1979	Pino Cerami (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961–1962) Emile Daems (1963) Peter Post (1964) Rik Van Looy (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Jan Janssen (1967) Eddy Merckx (1968) Walter Godefroot (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Roger Rosiers (1971) Roger De Vlaeminck (1972) Eddy Merckx (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974–1975) Marc Demeyer (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Francesco Moser (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Francesco Moser (1980) Bernard Hinault (1981) Jan Raas (1982) Hennie Kuiper (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Marc Madiot (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Eric Vanderaerden (1987) Dirk Demol (1988) Jean-Marie Wampers (1989) Eddy Planckaert (1990) Marc Madiot (1991) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1992–1993) Andrei Tchmil (1994) Franco Ballerini (1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Frédéric Guesdon (1997) Franco Ballerini (1998) Andrea Tafi (1999)
2000–2019	Johan Museeuw (2000) Servais Knaven (2001) Johan Museeuw (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Magnus Bäckstedt (2004) Tom Boonen (2005) Fabian Cancellara (2006) Stuart O'Grady (2007) Tom Boonen (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Johan Vansummeren (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013) Niki Terpstra (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Mathew Hayman (2016) Greg Van Avermaet (2017) Peter Sagan (2018) Philippe Gilbert (2019)
2020–2039	(2020, not held) Sonny Colbrelli (2021)