Salvatore Commesso

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Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian road bicycle racer.

He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he came in third in the Grand Prix Suisse and the Giro del Capo. He won the Italian National Championships and Stage 13 of the 1999 Tour de France in 1999.

Commesso won Stage 18 of the 2000 Tour de France and won the points competition in the Volta a Portugal in 2001.

In 2002, he again won the Italian Championship, as well as the Trofeo Matteotti and the Criterium d'Abruzzo.

He rode for the Saeco team in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, the team merged with Lampre, with whom he came in second in the Giro del Veneto.

He is riding for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and came in second in Stage 14.

[edit] Major achievements

2006 – Lampre-Fondital

• 2nd, Stage 14 – Tour de France (Stage Combativity Award)

2005 – Lampre

2004 – Saeco

2003 – Saeco

2002

•  Italy National Road Race Championship
• Trofeo Matteotti
• Criterium d'Abruzzo

2001

• Points Classification – Volta a Portugal

2000

• 1st, Stage 18 – Tour de France

1999

• 1st, Stage 13 – Tour de France
•  Italy National Road Race Championship

1998

His first year as a professional.

• 3rd, Grand Prix Suisse
• 3rd, Giro del Capo

Riders on Lampre-Fondital

Alessandro Ballan | Daniele Bennati | Matteo Bono | Marzio Bruseghin | Matteo Carrara | Jaime Alberto Castaneda Ortega | Salvatore Commesso | Claudio Corioni | Damiano Cunego | Giuliano Figueras | Paolo Fornaciari | Enrico Franzoi | David Loosli | Marco Marzano | Ruggero Marzoli | Danilo Napolitano | Jewgeni Petrow | Morris Possoni | Daniele Righi | Marius Sabaliauskas | Mauro Santambrogio | Gorazd Stangelj | Sylvester Szmyd | Tadej Valjavec | Paulo Tiralongo | Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea | Kin San Wu | Gang Xu

Manager

Giuseppe Saronni