Salvatore Commesso

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Salvatore Commesso

Commesso at the 2007 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Salvatore Commesso
Nickname	Toto
Date of birth	March 28, 1975 (1975-03-28) (age 33)
Country	Italy
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Weight	66 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1998–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008	Saeco Lampre Tinkoff Credit Systems Preti Mangimi
Major wins
Tour de France, 2 stages National Champion (1999, 2002)
Infobox last updated on:
June 5, 2008

Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer that rides for the professional continental team Preti Mangimi.

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 rode for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and came in second in Stage 14.

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