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1988 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 1988 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 23rd edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycle race and was held from 11 March to 16 March 1988. The race started in Bacoli and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Erich Maechler of the Carrera team. General classification References 1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ... 1988 in Italian sport March 1988 sports events in Europe {{Italy-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Maechler
Erich Mächler (also spelled Maechler) (born 24 September 1960 in Hochdorf) is a former professional Swiss cyclist. In the 1987 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for 6 days. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1984. Major results ;1982 :Tour du Nord-Ouest :Stage 8 in the Tour de Suisse ;1983 :Grand prix de Mendrisio :Stage 6 in the Tour de Suisse ;1984 :Stage 2 in the Tirreno–Adriatico, 2nd place overall :Championnat des Trois Nations ;1986 :Winner of stage 21 in the Tour de France :Stage 5 of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1987 :Yellow jersey for 6 days in the Tour de France : Milan–San Remo :Prologue and 4th stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1988 :1st overall in the Tirreno–Adriatico ::Stages 2 and 6B :Volta al Camp Morverde :Tour de Valence ;1989 :Stage 4 of the Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Vanderaerden
Eric Vanderaerden (born 11 February 1962) is a retired road cyclist from the town of Lummen, Belgium. He was a considerable talent, winning the prologue time trial of the Vuelta a España in his debut year of 1983. During the 1983 Tour de France he also won the prologue and held the yellow jersey for two days. During the 1984 Tour de France he won two stages, including the final stage of the race which finished on the Champs Elysees in Paris. His participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the eventual Tour winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage. He held the yellow jersey again during this tour, this time for three days. The following year, he won the green jersey. In subsequent years, he won two monument races: in 1985, at 23, he won the storm ridden edition of the Tour of Flanders, and in 1987 he won Paris–Roubaix. After 1988, his career went in decline and, despite his talent, he failed to win major races. He certainly had considerable talent as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Petito
Giuseppe Petito (born 25 February 1960) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France and ten editions of the Giro d'Italia. He also rode in the men's road race at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1980 :8th Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia ;1981 :1st Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo ;1982 :2nd Overall Tour of Sweden ::1st Prologue & Stage 1 :3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna :3rd Giro del Veneto :6th Giro di Romagna ;1983 :1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España :2nd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria :6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;1984 :1st Trofeo Laigueglia :6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :10th Giro di Romagna ;1985 :8th Overall GP du Midi-Libre :8th Giro di Romagna ;1986 :3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :4th Nokere Koerse :7th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria :8th Milan–San Remo :9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;1987 :1st Giro di Campania :9th Overall Tirreno–A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Gelfi
Luca Gelfi (21 June 1966 - 3 January 2009) was an Italian racing cyclist. A professional from 1988 to 1998, he won two stages of the 1990 Giro d'Italia and one of the 1997 Volta a Portugal. He finished second in the 1993 Milan-Sanremo. After retiring in 1998, he owned and operated a bike shop and directed Team Fratelli Giorgi, a prestigious junior cycling team. Gelfi suffered from clinical depression and committed suicide in 2009 Major results ;1988 :1st Overall Cronostaffetta :4th Firenze-Pistoia :5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía :8th Giro di Romagna :9th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico ;1989 :3rd Overall Giro del Trentino :5th Firenze-Pistoia :6th Overall Tour of Belgium ;1990 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 6 & 10 ( ITT) :6th Giro di Toscana :10th G.P. Camaiore ;1993 :2nd Milan-San Remo :2nd Overall Giro di Puglia ;1994 :6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country ;1995 :3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano :4th Trofeo Laigueglia :5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen :8th Tre Valli Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wilson (cyclist)
Michael Wilson (born 15 January 1960) is a former Australian racing cyclist. He rode in nine Grand Tours between 1982 and 1989. He also rode in two events at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Wilson set the fastest time in the amateur Goulburn to Sydney Classic in 1978 run from Goulburn to Liverpool. Major results ;1978 : 1st Overall The Examiner Tour of the North ;1980 : 1st (with Jeff Leslie) ;1982 : 1st Memorial Gastone Nencini : 1st Stage 2 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria : 3rd Gran Piemonte : 7th Overall Ruota d'Oro ;1983 : 1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España : 3rd GP Montelupo : 6th Giro del Veneto : 9th Giro di Romagna ;1984 : 1st Trofeo Matteotti : 2nd Giro dell'Emilia ;1985 : 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Daniele Caroli) : 7th Giro di Romagna : 8th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1986 : 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Daniele Caroli) : 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm ;1988 : 2nd Tour du Nord-Ouest : 3rd Grand Prix des Nations : 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 10th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Anderson (cyclist)
Philip Grant Anderson (born 20 March 1958) is a British-born Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Origins Phil Anderson was born in London but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was young. He grew up in the suburb of Kew and graduated from Trinity Grammar School in 1975. He first raced with Hawthorn Cycling Club, where Allan Peiper, another future professional, was also a member.Cycling Weekly, UK, 21 November 1992 Peiper said: "Phil went to a private school and joined the club with his mate, Peter Darbyshire. My best friend was Tom Sawyer, later a six-day racer in Europe, and we were the two rough nuts, while Phil and Darbs were the two upper-class boys". Amateur career Anderson won the 1977 Dulux Tour of the North Island in New Zealand and the Australian team time-trial championship at Brisbane in 1978. In that year he also won the Commonwealth Games road race in Edmonton, Alberta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Fondriest
Maurizio Fondriest (born 15 January 1965) is a retired Italy, Italian professional road racing cyclist. Career Born in Cles, Trentino, Fondriest turned professional in 1987 with the Ecoflam team. He subsequently rode for Alfa Lum cycling team, Alfa-Lum in 1988, winning the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Cycling Championships along with stages in the Tour de Suisse and Tirreno–Adriatico. In 1991, riding for Panasonic, he won the UCI Road World Cup. In 1993, riding for the Lampre team, he won Milan–San Remo, La Flèche Wallonne, the Züri-Metzgete, the Giro dell'Emilia, the general classification and two stages of Tirreno–Adriatico, three stages and the general classification of the Grand Prix du Midi Libre, a stage in the Giro d'Italia and the overall World Cup. He never again had such a successful season, although he had another successful season with Lampre in 1995: in that year he won a stage in the Giro d'Italia and came in second in a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrera (cycling Team)
Carrera was an Italian-based road bicycle racing team active from 1984 to 1996, named after sponsoring Italian jeans manufacturer Carrera. The team was successful in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France with three General classification, overall wins and several wins in the Points classification and King of the Mountains, Mountain Classifications. History Inoxpran The Inoxpran cycling team began in 1979. The Inoxpran team achieved success with Italian Giovanni Battaglin who won in the period of a month and a half in 1981 two Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours in with the 1981 Giro d'Italia and the 1981 Vuelta a España. Battaglin was the second rider in history to achieve this Giro-Vuelta double after Eddy Merckx who achieved the double in 1973. Roberto Visentini had been the Inoxpran team leader in 1983 when he finished second overall in the 1983 Giro d'Italia. Carrera Carrera Jeans became the title sponsor in 1984 and Visentini finally won the Giro d'Italia in 1986. At the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Rominger
Tony Rominger (born 27 March 1961 in Vejle, Denmark) is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995. He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother. Rominger's strengths were time-trialling, climbing and recuperation. He was a rival to Miguel Indurain in the Tour de France and was placed second in 1993 and won the mountains classification. His three wins in the Vuelta were a record at the time. In 2005, Roberto Heras broke that record but two months later tested positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO and was disqualified. Heras' win has since been reinstated. In 1994 Rominger broke the world hour record twice in a few days. He used Bordeaux velodrome to ride 53.832 km and then 55.291 km, although a track novice. He retired in 1997 after breaking his collarbone at that year's Tour de France. He is the agent of Austrian racing cyclist Matthias Brändle. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Benedetto Del Tronto
San Benedetto del Tronto is a city and ''comune'' in Marche, Italy. Part of an urban area with 100,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most densely populated areas along the Adriatic Sea coast. It is the most populated city in Province of Ascoli Piceno, with 47,560 (October 2020). Its port is one of the biggest on the Adriatic; it is the most important centre of '' Riviera of the Palms'', with over 8,000 ''Phoenix canariensis'', ''Washingtonia'' and '' P. sylvestris'' plants. Geography San Benedetto del Tronto rises on the shores of the Adriatic Sea and is located about 28 km east of Ascoli Piceno. It is the southernmost coastal town in the Marche region. The municipal territory extends for 25.41 km² and has the conformation of a coastal hill, with an altitude level between 0 and 282 height above sea level in the ''"Barattelle"'' contrada, it extends for 9.3 km along the coast of the middle Adriatic, of which 1.7 km in the protected natural area of the ''"S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacoli
Bacoli (; la, Bauli) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about west of Naples. Geography Bacoli borders the municipalities of Monte di Procida and Pozzuoli. Its territory, of volcanic origin, is part of the Phlegraean Fields. The volcano of Cape Miseno and the Miseno port date from c. 35,000-10,500 years ago. History Bacoli was founded by the ancient Romans in the 2nd or 1st c. BC, who called it ''Bauli''. In Roman times it was a popular resort almost as famous as the nearby Baiae. Many luxurious villas were built on the coast there and on the headland. Symmachus said of Bauli in the late 4th c. AD: Main sights Several major ancient Roman structures can be seen in Bacoli, including the Piscina Mirabilis, the ''Cento Camerelle'', and the so-called ''Tomba Agrippina'', a theatre belonging to an ancient villa. The ''frazione'' of Cuma - Fusaro includes the site of Cumae, the first settlement in Italy by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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