- Maurizio Fondriest
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Maurizio Fondriest Personal information Born 15 January 1965
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 RemoMedal recordCompetitor for Italy
Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1988 Ronse Elite Men's Road Race Infobox last updated on
7 April 2009Maurizio Fondriest (born 15 January 1965) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist.
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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
UCI Road World Cup, UCI ProTour and UCI World Tour winners UCI Road World Cup 1989 Sean Kelly · 1990 Gianni Bugno · 1991 Maurizio Fondriest · 1992 Olaf Ludwig · 1993 Maurizio Fondriest · 1994 Gianluca Bortolami · 1995 Johan Museeuw · 1996 Johan Museeuw · 1997 Michele Bartoli · 1998 Michele Bartoli · 1999 Andrei Tchmil · 2000 Erik Zabel · 2001 Erik Dekker · 2002 Paolo Bettini · 2003 Paolo Bettini · 2004 Paolo Bettini
UCI ProTour UCI World Tour 2009 Alberto Contador · 2010 Joaquim Rodríguez · 2011 Philippe Gilbert
Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Cles
- Italian cyclists
- Cycle designers
- UCI World Champions
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
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