Maurizio Fondriest

Maurizio Fondriest

Personal information
Born	15 January 1965 (1965-01-15) (age 46)  Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Role	Rider
Major wins
1988 UCI Road World Championships 1991, 1993 UCI Road World Cup 1993 La Flèche Wallonne 1993 Milan – San Remo
Medal record Competitor for  Italy Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1988 Ronse Elite Men's Road Race
Infobox last updated on 7 April 2009

Maurizio Fondriest (born 15 January 1965) is a retired 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 in 1988, winning the 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 would never again have such a successful season, although he had another successful season with Lampre in 1995 he won a stage in the Giro d'Italia and came in second in a number of races (the Tirreno–Adriatico general classification, Milan – San Remo, Gent–Wevelgem, La Flèche Wallonne, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia).

Retirement

He retired in 1998 after riding for Cofidis for three years, and founded a bicycle manufacturer, called Fondriest, which makes carbon fiber bicycles.

Palmarès

• World Cup: 1991, 1993
• World road champion: 1988
• Challenge San Silvestro d'Oro: 1993
• Challenge Giglio d'Oro: 1993

• Milan – San Remo: 1993
• Flèche Wallonne: 1993
• Tirreno–Adriatico:1993
• Grand Prix de Zurich: 1993
• Midi Libre: 1993
• Tour of Britain: 1994
• Tour of Poland: 1994

External links

• Fondriest bicycles

Persondata
Name	Maurizio Fondriest
Alternative names
Short description	Professional cyclist
Date of birth	1965-1-15
Place of birth	Cles, Trento
Date of death
Place of death