- Marino Basso
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Marino Basso Personal information Full name Marino Basso Born June 1, 1945
Italy
Team information Discipline Road Role Rider Major wins 1972 World Road Race Champion Medal recordCompetitor for Italy
Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1972 Gap Elite Men's Road Race Infobox last updated on
July 14, 2008Marino Basso (born 1 June 1945) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who won the World Cycling Championship in 1972.
Basso was born at Rettorgole di Caldogno, in the Veneto. He was one of the main sprinters of 1970s, often duelling with Belgians Patrick Sercu, Guido Reybroeck and Roger de Vlaeminck, and fellow Italian Dino Zandegù.
Basso won a total of 15 stages at the Giro d'Italia, 6 at the Tour de France and 6 at the Vuelta a España. He was Giro d'Italia's points classification winner in 1971 and the Italian national champion in 1972.
He is not related to Italian cyclist Ivan Basso.
After his professional career, Basso became team leader, currently at Preti Mangimi.
Palmarès
- 1967
- GP Campagnolo
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 3 and 18
- 1968
- CP Cemab
- Milano–Vignola
- Chieti
- Paris–Luxembourg (with Michele Dancelli)
- 1969
- Col San Martino
- Giro del Piemonte
- Tre Valli Varesine
- Trofeo Matteotti
- Giro de Campania
- Chieto
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 1A
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stages 8, 13, 18A and 18B
- 1970
- Cittadella
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 3B, 11B and 21
- 1971
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 1
Winner points classification (Maglia ciclamino)
- Milano–Vignola
- 1972
- Coppa Bernocchi
World Road Race Championship
- Cittadella
- 1973
- Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
- Milano–Vignola
- Pasajes
- Genua-Nice
- 1974
- Castelfranco Veneto
- Six days of Castelgomberto (with Dieter Kemper)
- Sarnico
- GP Montelupo
- 1975
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11B
- 1976
- Col San Martino
- 1977
- Coppa Placci
- Castelfranco Veneto
- 1978
- Zambana
External links
- Marino Basso profile at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Marino Basso
Categories:- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from the Province of Vicenza
- Italian cyclists
- Italian Tour de France stage winners
- UCI World Champions
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Italian Vuelta a España stage winners
- Italian cycling biography stubs
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