Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami (28 April 1922
– 20 September 2014) was a
Belgian road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. Born in
Misterbianco
Misterbianco ( scn, Mustariancu; lat-med, Monasterium Album, lit=White Monastery' or 'White Minster) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about w ...
,
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
Miguel Poblet Orriols (18 March 1928 – 6 April 2013) was a Spanish professional cyclist, who had over 200 professional victories from 1944 to 1962. He was the first Spanish rider to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, and in 1956 he ...
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
The 1963 Tour de France was the 50th instance of that Grand Tour. It took place between 23 June and 14 July, with 21 stages covering a distance of . Stages 2 and 6 were both two part stages, the first half being a regular stage and the second hal ...
, Cerami won the 9th stage at 41 years old; Cerami is the oldest Tour de France stage winner ever.
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.
Oud-wielrenner Pino Cerami (92) overladen
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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
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
- did not finish
*1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
- 35th
*1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
- did not finish
*1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
- 81st
*1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
- did not finish; winner 9th stage
References
External links
Pino Cerami's palmares at memoire-du-cyclisme.net (in French)Pino Cerami at cyclinghalloffame.com
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1922 births
2014 deaths
Sportspeople from the Province of Catania
Belgian male cyclists
Belgian Tour de France stage winners
Walloon sportspeople
Naturalised citizens of Belgium
People from Misterbianco
Cyclists from Sicily