Personal information | |
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Born | (1962-12-20) 20 December 1962 (age 62) Forlì, Italy |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
1982–1984 | Lambrusco Giacobazzi |
Professional teams | |
1984–1988 | Alfa Lum–Olmo |
1989–1990 | Jolly Componibili–Club 88 |
Maurizio Rossi (born 20 December 1962) is an Italian former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1984 to 1990.
Career
Rossi almost won the 1986 Tour of the Basque Country, after winning the first stage in a solo victory 3:40 ahead of the peloton. He held the lead all the way to the last stage, which was an eighteen-kilometer individual time trial. Irish cyclist Sean Kelly finished the time trial 3:58 ahead of Rossi, therefore taking the final victory by eighteen seconds over Rossi, who still managed to finish second.
During his career, Rossi also won the Giro del Veneto in 1986 as well as the overall classification and a stage of the 1987 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali.
Major results
- 1983
- 1st Trofeo Papà Cervi
- 1985
- 7th Giro di Toscana
- 1986
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 1
- 5th Giro del Lazio
- 7th Coppa Sabatini
- 1987
- 1st Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Giro di Campania
- 1989
- 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
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Giro d'Italia | 102 | 73 | 89 | DNF | 43 | 55 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | 87 |
References
- "ROSSI Maurizio". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- "26ème Vuelta al Pais Vasco 1986". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 18 August 2004.
- "Maurizio Rossi". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
External links
- Maurizio Rossi at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Maurizio Rossi at ProCyclingStats
- Maurizio Rossi at CycleBase