Franco Vona (born 20 August 1964) is a former Italian

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

. Vona won three stages of the Giro d'Italia and placed 6th overall in 1992. During the

1992 Tour de France The 1992 Tour de France was the 79th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 4 to 26 July. The total race distance was 21 stages and a prologue over . In honor of the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European Union, the Tour visited ...

he placed 2nd on the only two high mountain stages of the race and was inside the top 10 until the final ITT which dropped him to 11th. Later in his career he rode on the powerful Maglificio team of

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and

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and earned TTT stage victories in the

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and

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editions of the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

Major results

;1988 : 1st Stage 16, Giro d'Italia ;1989 : 3rd Overall,

Vuelta a Venezuela The Vuelta a Venezuela ( en, Tour of Venezuela) is a men's multi-day road cycling race held annually in Venezuela. The race carries a UCI rating of 2.2 and is part of the UCI America Tour, which is one of six UCI Continental Circuits sponsored ...

:: 1st Stage 5 : 3rd Stage 19, Giro d'Italia : 12th,

Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; en, Championship of Zürich; german: Meisterschaft von Zürich) was a European Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 until ...

;1991 : 1st Stage 6, Tour de Suisse ;1992 : 6th Overall, Giro d'Italia :: 1st Stages 5 & 12 : 11th Overall,

:: 2nd Stages 13 & 14 ;1993 :21st Overall,

:: 1st Stage 4 (TTT) ;1994 : 16th,

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:37th Overall,

:: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) ;1995 :48th Overall,

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* * 1964 births Living people Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Sportspeople from the Province of Frosinone Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from Lazio {{Italy-cycling-bio-1960s-stub