Italian cyclist

Giuseppe Guerini (born 14 February 1970) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer. He was known throughout his career as a climbing specialist and had pronounced success in cycling's Grand Tour events. He completed six editions of the Tour de France, five Vuelta a España's and four Giro's, managing two third-place finishes in the 1997 and 1998 Giro d'Italia.

He began his professional career in 1993 with Navigare and subsequently joined Team Polti in 1996. It was during his tenure with team Polti that he achieved two podium finishes at the Giro d'Italia. He then switched to the German T-Mobile Team from 1999 to 2007. He retired from cycling at the end of 2007.

Further career highlights include a stage win in the 1998 Route du Sud, a stage win in the 1998 Volta a Portugal, a stage win in the 1999 Tour de France and again in the 2005 Tour de France, a stage win in the 2002 Catalan Week, and second place in the 2003 Tour de Suisse.

He is also remembered for an incident during the difficult Alpe d'Huez stage of the 1999 Tour de France. Guerini was leading the field and only a few hundred meters from the finish line when a cycling fan knocked him off his bicycle while attempting to take a photograph. Guerini was able to remount his bicycle and finish 21 seconds ahead of Pavel Tonkov.

Guerini is a native of Gazzaniga, Lombardy.

Contents

• 1 Career achievements
  • 1.1 Major results
  • 1.2 Grand Tour overall cl*ification results timeline
• 2 External links

Career achievements

Major results

19881st Overall Giro della Lunigiana19913rd Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia19941st Stage 9 Volta a Portugal6th Overall Settimana InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale di Coppi e Bartali19953rd Tour du Haut Var3rd Gran Premio di Lugano19962nd Overall Route du Sud1st Stage 33rd Overall Tour de Romandie19973rd Overall Giro d'Italia5th Overall Tour de Romandie19983rd Overall Giro d'Italia1st Stage 175th Giro dell'Appennino9th Overall Giro del Trentino19991st Stage 10 Tour de France3rd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León8th Overall Tour de Suisse20001st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse8th Luk-Cup Bühl20017th Luk-Cup Bühl20022nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme1st Stage 320032nd Overall Tour de Suisse8th Overall Euskal Bizikleta20048th Overall Tour de Suisse20051st Stage 19 Tour de France

Grand Tour overall cl*ification results timeline

External links

• Giuseppe Guerini at Cycling Archives
• Giuseppe Guerini at ProCyclingStats
• Official Tour de France results for Giuseppe Guerini