Vito Favero

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Vito Favero

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fullname = Vito Favero
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1932|10|21
country = Italy
currentteam = Retired
discipline = Road
role = Rider
ridertype =
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 1956 1957 1958-1959 1960-1961 1962
proteams = Bottecchia-Vitabrill Bottecchia-Gripo Atala-Pirelli Atala Torpado
majorwins = 2nd place 1958 Tour de France,6 days in yellow jersey 1 stage in 1959 Tour de France
updated = 12 June 2007

Vito Favero (born 21 October 1932 in Sarmede) is a former Italian road racing cyclist. He was professional from 1956 to 1962. In the 1958 Tour de France, he finished second. The 1958 Tour de France has been compared to the 2006 Tour de France: Both Charly Gaul and Floyd Landis were favourites halfway the Tour, both lost dramatically at a stage, but at a later stage made a great comeback, which put them close to the two leaders (Favero-Raphaël Géminiani and Óscar Pereiro-Carlos Sastre, and the day before the last stage to Paris they overtook the two leaders in an individual time trial. [cite news
url=http://www.nrc.nl/sport/article394230.ece/Landis_volgt_scenario_van_Charly_Gaul
title= Landis volgt scenario van Charly Gaul
publisher=NRC
date=2006-07-21
accessdate= 2007-06-12]

Major victories

;1956:2nd place in 8th stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré:2nd place in the Tour of Europe;1957;1958:1958 Tour de France: 2nd place overall, 6 days in yellow jersey:Winner in Geneva;1959:1959 Tour de France: did not finish, won stage 2:Paris-Nice: winner of stages 2 and 5B:Prix de Nantua;1960:2nd place in the Tour of Lazio.;1961:1961 Tour de France: did not finish:2nd place in the Tour of Reggio Calabria.

External links

* [http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=3833 Career overview nl icon (English available)]
* [http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/riders/us/3490.html Tour de France results]

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