Maurizio Fondriest

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Maurizio Fondriest
Personal information
Date of birth January 15, 1965 (1965-01-15) (age 43)
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Height 0 m (0 ft 0 in)
Weight kg (0 lb/0 st)
Team information
Current team Retired
Role Rider
Major wins
1988 UCI Road World Championships
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Maurizio Fondriest (born January 15, 1965) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist.

[edit] Career

Born in Cles, province of Trento, 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-Sanremo, 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-Sanremo, Gent-Wevelgem, La Flèche Wallonne, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia).

[edit] Retirement

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

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Stephen Roche
World Road Racing Champion
1988
Succeeded by
Greg LeMond
Preceded by
Gianni Bugno
UCI Road World Cup Champion
1991
Succeeded by
Olaf Ludwig
Preceded by
Olaf Ludwig
UCI Road World Cup Champion
1993
Succeeded by
Gianluca Bortolami


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