Pino Cerami

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Pino Cerami

Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Cerami
Nickname	Pino
Date of birth	April 28, 1922 (1922-04-28) (age 86)
Country	Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1946-1947 1948 1949-1954 1955-1956 1957 1958 1959-1962 1963	Independent Metropole-Dunlop Peugeot-Dunlop Elvé-Peugeot Peugeot-BP Elvé-Peugeot-Marvan Peugeot-BP-Dunlop Peugeot-BP
Major wins
Tour de France, 1 stage (1963) Tour of Belgium (1957) Paris-Roubaix (1960) La Flèche Wallonne (1960) Paris-Brussels (1961)
Infobox last updated on:
March 7, 2007

Giuseppe 'Pino' Cerami (born 28 April 1922 in Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy) is a former Belgian road bicycle racer. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. He was naturalised as a Belgian on 16 March 1956.

Since 1964 the GP Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium.

Cerami won the 1960 Paris-Roubaix Classic with Tino Sabbadini of France second and Miguel Poblet of Spain in third place. Cerami also won La Flèche Wallonne Classic in 1960. Cerami was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade.

[edit] Major wins

Medal record
Competitor for  Belgium
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
Bronze	1960 Karl Marx Stadt	Elite Men's Road Race

[edit] External references

• Pino Cerami's palmares at memoire-du-cyclisme.net (in French)
• Pino Cerami at cyclinghalloffame.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Noel Fore	Winner of Paris-Roubaix 1960	Succeeded by Rik van Looy