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Salvatore Commesso

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Salvatore Commesso
Commesso at the 2007 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameSalvatore Commesso
NicknameToto
Born (1975-03-28) March 28, 1975 (age 49)
Torre del Greco, Italy
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
1994S.C. Villa d'Almè
1995Cosmos GMG
1996–1997Casini–Vellutex
1996Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino (stagiaire)
Professional teams
1998–2004Saeco–Cannondale
2005–2006Lampre–Caffita
2007Tinkoff Credit Systems
2008Preti Mangimi
2009Meridiana–Kalev Chocolate
2010Meridiana–Kamen
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1999, 2000)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1999, 2002)
Medal record
Road cycling
Representing  Czech Republic
European Under-23 Road Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Villach Road race
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1997 Bari Road race

Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.

He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he placed in third in the Grand Prix de Suisse and the Giro del Capo. He won the Italian National Road Race Championships and Stage 13 of the 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–Cannondale team from 1998 to 2004. In 2005, the team merged with Lampre–Caffita, with whom he came in second in the Giro del Veneto.

He rode for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and finished second in Stage 14.

Major results

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