Moreno Argentin
Appearance
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Full name | Moreno Argentin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Il Capo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | San Donà di Piave, Italy | 17 December 1960||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
1981–1984 | Sammontana | ||||||||||||||||||||
1985–1986 | Sammontana-Bianchi | ||||||||||||||||||||
1987–1989 | Gewiss-Bianchi | ||||||||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Ariostea | ||||||||||||||||||||
1993 | Mecair-Ballan | ||||||||||||||||||||
1994 | Gewiss-Ballan | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Moreno Argentin (born 17 December 1960) is an Italian former professional cyclist (from 1981 to 1994) and race director.
Born in San Donà di Piave (Veneto), he won stages in the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Suisse. Known as Il Capo ("The Boss"), he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège four times, the La Flèche Wallonne three times and the Tour of Flanders and Giro di Lombardia once. He became Italian national champion in 1983 and 1989, and world champion in 1986. He is the founder of the Adriatica Ionica Race which was run for the first time in 2018.[3]
Career achievements
Major results
- 1977
- Italian track cycling champion, team pursuit, juniors
- 1978
- Italian track cycling champion, team pursuit, juniors
- 1979
- Italian track cycling champion, team pursuit, amateurs
- 1980
- Italian track cycling champion, team pursuit, amateurs
- Italian road cycling champion, military
- Giro della Valli Aretine
- 1981
- 8th and 12th stage, Giro d'Italia
- GP Industria & Commercio di Prato
- 1982
- 8th stage, Giro d'Italia
- 3rd stage, Tour de Suisse
- Giro della Romagna
- Trofeo Matteotti
- 1983
- 7th and 21st stage, Giro d'Italia
- Italian National Road Race Championship
- 2nd and 3rd stage, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1984
- 3rd and 5th stage, Giro d'Italia
- 1985
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st stage, Tirreno–Adriatico
- Overall, Danmark Rundt
- 1986
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- World Championships
- 1987
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd, 4th and 7th stage, Giro d'Italia
- 2nd and 4th stage, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1989
- Italian National Road Race Championship
- 1990
- Tour of Flanders
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd stage, Tour de France
- 9th stage, Tour of Switzerland
- 1991
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- La Flèche Wallonne
- 15th stage, Tour de France
- 1992
- 5th, 6th and 7th stage, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1993
- 1st and 13th stage, Giro d'Italia
- 1994
- La Flèche Wallonne
- Giro del Trentino
- 2nd stage, Giro d'Italia
Monuments results timeline
Monument | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 |
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Milan–San Remo | — | 3 | 28 | 17 | 26 | — | — | — | 41 | 4 | — | 2 | — | — |
Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 | 66 | — | 1 | 53 | — | 42 | — |
Paris–Roubaix | Did not contest during career | |||||||||||||
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 39 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | — | 6 | 1 | — | 5 | 18 |
Giro di Lombardia | 2 | — | 21 | — | 30 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
DNF = Did not finish
— = Did not compete
References
- ^ http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1050_01_1981_0121_0023_15148377/
- ^ http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1050_01_1981_0121_0023_15148377/
- ^ http://www.velonews.com/2018/04/news/italian-stage-racing-enjoys-resurgence_464293
External links
- Moreno Argentin at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Moreno Argentin