Vito Favero
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Vito Favero |
| Born | 21 October 1932 Sarmede, Italy |
| Died | 16 May 2014 (aged 81) Sarmede, Italy |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1956 | Bottecchia-Vitabrill |
| 1957 | Bottecchia-Gripo |
| 1958-1959 | Atala-Pirelli |
| 1960-1961 | Atala |
| 1962 | Torpado |
| Major wins | |
| 2nd place 1958 Tour de France,6 days in yellow jersey 1 stage in 1959 Tour de France | |
Vito Favero (21 October 1932 – 16 May 2014) was an Italian road racing cyclist. He was professional from 1956 to 1962. In the 1958 Tour de France, he finished second.[1] The 1958 Tour de France has been compared to the 2006 Tour de France: Both Charly Gaul and Floyd Landis were favourites halfway the Tour, both lost dramatically at a stage, but at a later stage made a great comeback, which put them close to the two leaders (Favero-Raphaël Géminiani and Óscar Pereiro-Carlos Sastre, and the day before the last stage to Paris they overtook the two leaders in an individual time trial. [2]
Major results
- 1956
- 2nd place in 8th stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 2nd place in the Tour of Europe
- 1957
- 1958
- 1958 Tour de France: 2nd place overall, 6 days in yellow jersey
- Winner in Geneva
- 1959
- 1959 Tour de France: did not finish, won stage 2
- Paris–Nice: winner of stages 2 and 5B
- Prix de Nantua
- 1960
- 2nd place in the Tour of Lazio.
- 1961
- 1961 Tour de France: did not finish
- 2nd place in the Tour of Reggio Calabria.
References
- ^ "Addio a Favero, secondo al Tour nel 1958". La Gazzetta dello Sport. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ "Landis volgt scenario van Charly Gaul". NRC. 21 July 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
External links
- Vito Favero at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Tour de France results