Silvano Contini

Silvano Contini
Personal information
Born	15 January 1958 (age 64); Leggiuno, Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
1977	F.lli Pozzi Ferramenta
Professional teams
1978–1984	Bianchi–Faema
1985	Ariostea–Oece
1986	Gis Gelati
1987	Del Tongo
1988–1989	Malvor–Bottecchia–Sidi
1990	Gis Gelati–Benotto
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Young rider classification (1979) 4 individual stages (1980, 1982) 1 TTT stage (1983) Stage races Tour of the Basque Country (1981) Deutschland Tour (1981) Grand Prix du Midi Libre (1985) One-day races and Classics Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1982)

Silvano Contini (born 15 January 1958) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.

Career[]

Professional from 1978 to 1990, his main successes were the 1982 Liège–Bastogne–Liège of 1982, the 1985 Grand Prix du Midi Libre and the 1981 Tour of the Basque Country. He also won the Trofeo Baracchi in 1983 with Daniel Gisiger as well as four stages of the Giro d'Italia.^[1]

Major results[]

1977

1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista de Chile

3rd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta

1st Stages 2, 4 & 6

1978

6th Giro dell'Emilia

1979

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Gran Piemonte

2nd Giro di Lombardia

2nd Trofeo Matteotti

3rd Overall Giro di Puglia

3rd Giro dell'Emilia

3rd Giro dell'Umbria

3rd Giro del Veneto

5th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st

Young rider classification

6th Overall Tour de Romandie

6th Giro di Romagna

7th Coppa Placci

1980

1st GP Industria & Commercio di Prato

1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia

1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

1st Trofeo Matteotti

1st Overall Cronostaffetta

2nd Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 3

2nd Overall Ruota d'Oro

1st Stage 3

3rd Tre Valli Varesine

3rd Giro del Veneto

3rd Coppa Placci

3rd Giro di Campania

3rd Milano–Vignola

4th GP Montelupo

5th Overall Paris–Nice

7th GP Industria & Artigianato

7th Giro di Toscana

8th Overall Giro di Sardegna

8th Giro di Lombardia

8th Giro dell'Emilia

8th Giro del Lazio

10th Milano–Torino

10th Trofeo Laigueglia

1981

1st

Overall Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stages 3, 4 & 5b

1st

Overall Deutschland Tour

1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice

3rd Giro dell'Emilia

3rd Giro del Veneto

3rd Trofeo Pantalica

4th Overall Giro d'Italia

4th Coppa Agostoni

4th Giro dell'Appennino

4th Trofeo Laigueglia

10th Züri-Metzgete

1982

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Coppa Bernocchi

1st Visp–Grächen

1st Stage 7a Tour of Sweden

2nd Giro dell'Emilia

3rd Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 6 & 17

3rd Overall Tour de Romandie

3rd GP Industria & Artigianato

4th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme

1st Stages 3 & 4

4th Giro di Romagna

6th Coppa Agostoni

7th Milan–San Remo

8th Gent–Wevelgem

9th GP de Fourmies

10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1983

1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Daniel Gisiger)

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

2nd Tre Valli Varesine

5th Paris–Tours

6th GP Industria & Commercio di Prato

1984

1st Coppa Sabatini

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Giro dell'Umbria

6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

6th Giro dell'Etna

9th Giro di Lombardia

10th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali

1985

1st

Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre

1st Stage 1

1st

Overall Tour de l'Aude

1st Stage 1

1st Overall Giro di Puglia

1st Overall Ruota d'Oro

1st Coppa Placci

2nd Overall Giro del Trentino

6th Giro di Lombardia

7th Overall Giro d'Italia

7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

8th Firenze–Pistoia

1986

4th Grand Prix de Wallonie

1987

1st Giro dell'Umbria

3rd Trofeo Pantalica

5th Coppa Placci

6th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali

9th Overall Route du Sud

1988

1st Overall Trofeo dello Scalatore

1st Stage 3

2nd Giro di Toscana

5th Giro dell'Emilia

9th Tre Valli Varesine

9th Overall Giro del Trentino

10th Coppa Placci

1989

2nd Overall Vuelta a Murcia

1st Stage 5a

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
Giro d'Italia	5	DNF	4	3	DNF	34	7	20	—	22	53	29
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	41	55	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	52	—

References[]

^ "Silvano Contini". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 January 2021.

External links[]

Silvano Contini at Cycling Archives

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[1] "Silvano Contini". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 January 2021.

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v t Liège–Bastogne–Liège winners
1880–1899	Léon Houa (1892–1894) (1895–1907, not held)
1900–1919	André Trousselier (1908) Victor Fastre (1909) (1910, not held) Joseph Van Daele (1911) Omer Verschoore (1912) Maurice Moritz (1913) (1914–1918, not held) Léon Devos (1919)
1920–1939	Léon Scieur (1920) Louis Mottiat (1921–1922) René Vermandel (1923–1924) Georges Ronsse (1925) Dieudonné Smets (1926) Maurice Raes (1927) Ernest Mottard (1928) Alphonse Schepers (1929) Hermann Buse (1930) Alphonse Schepers (1931) Marcel Houyoux (1932) François Gardier (1933) Théo Herckenrath (1934) Alphonse Schepers (1935) Albert Beckaert (1936) Éloi Meulenberg (1937) Alfons Deloor (1938) Albert Ritserveldt (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Richard Depoorter (1943) (1944, not held) Jan Engels (1945) Prosper Depredomme (1946) Richard Depoorter (1947) Maurice Mollin (1948) Camille Danguillaume (1949) Prosper Depredomme (1950) Ferdinand Kübler (1951–1952) Alois De Hertog (1953) Marcel Ernzer (1954) Stan Ockers (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Frans Schoubben and Germain Derycke (1957) Fred De Bruyne (1958–1959)
1960–1979	Albertus Geldermans (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961) Jef Planckaert (1962) Frans Melckenbeeck (1963) Willy Bocklant (1964) Carmine Preziosi (1965) Jacques Anquetil (1966) Walter Godefroot (1967) Valère Van Sweevelt (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Roger De Vlaeminck (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1973) Georges Pintens (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Joseph Bruyère (1976) Bernard Hinault (1977) Joseph Bruyère (1978) Dietrich Thurau (1979)
1980–1999	Bernard Hinault (1980) Josef Fuchs (1981) Silvano Contini (1982) Steven Rooks (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Moreno Argentin (1985–1987) Adri van der Poel (1988) Sean Kelly (1989) Eric Van Lancker (1990) Moreno Argentin (1991) Dirk De Wolf (1992) Rolf Sørensen (1993) Evgeni Berzin (1994) Mauro Gianetti (1995) Pascal Richard (1996) Michele Bartoli (1997–1998) Frank Vandenbroucke (1999)
2000–2019	Paolo Bettini (2000) Oscar Camenzind (2001) Paolo Bettini (2002) Tyler Hamilton (2003) Davide Rebellin (2004) Alexander Vinokourov (2005) Alejandro Valverde (2006) Danilo Di Luca (2007) Alejandro Valverde (2008) Andy Schleck (2009) Alexander Vinokourov (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Maxim Iglinsky (2012) Dan Martin (2013) Simon Gerrans (2014) Alejandro Valverde (2015) Wout Poels (2016) Alejandro Valverde (2017) Bob Jungels (2018) Jakob Fuglsang (2019)
2020–2039	Primož Roglič (2020) Tadej Pogačar (2021)

Personal information
Born	(1958-01-15) 15 January 1958 (age 64) Leggiuno, Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
1977	F.lli Pozzi Ferramenta

Professional teams
1978–1984	Bianchi–Faema
1985	Ariostea–Oece
1986	Gis Gelati
1987	Del Tongo
1988–1989	Malvor–Bottecchia–Sidi
1990	Gis Gelati–Benotto

Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Young rider classification (1979) 4 individual stages (1980, 1982) 1 TTT stage (1983) Stage races Tour of the Basque Country (1981) Deutschland Tour (1981) Grand Prix du Midi Libre (1985) One-day races and Classics Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1982)