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Full name | Salvatore Commesso | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Toto | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Torre del Greco, Italy | March 28, 1975||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
1994 | S.C. Villa d'Almè | ||||||||||||||||||||
1995 | Cosmos GMG | ||||||||||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Casini–Vellutex | ||||||||||||||||||||
1996 | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
1998–2004 | Saeco–Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2006 | Lampre–Caffita | ||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | Tinkoff Credit Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | Preti Mangimi | ||||||||||||||||||||
2009 | Meridiana–Kalev Chocolate | ||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | Meridiana–Kamen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.
He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he placed in third in the Grand Prix de Suisse and the Giro del Capo. He won the Italian National Road Race Championships and Stage 13 of the 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.
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