Antonio Tagliani

Antonio Tagliani (born April 12, 1941 in Campagnola di Bedizzole, Italy ) is a former Italian cyclist .

Athletic career

As a 19-year-old Tagliani got his first international chance when he started the West Berlin 4-stage race in 1960 .

Antonio Tagliani's brief career culminated in 1962 when he won the amateur team time trial at the 1962 road cycling world championships with the Italian four-man on home soil in Brescia . In 1963 the Italian cycling association nominated him for the three-country stage race Internationale Friedensfahrt , which led from Prague via Warsaw to East Berlin . There he won the second stage from Prague to Brno over 220 kilometers in a sprint . He was able to repeat this success on the 188-kilometer final stage from Magdeburg to East Berlin . At the mass finish he was again the fastest spurter. In the overall standings, Tagliani came in 53rd place out of 88 riders, making it only fifth of the six Italians involved. At the world championship in 100 km team driving he won a silver medal with the "Squadra Azzurra" in the same year.

He then received a two-year contract with the Italian cycling team Bianchi-Mobylette as a professional cyclist for 1964/65 , but was only able to place himself in the front once as third in the Vuelta a España 1965. In the following year he still competed as an individual without a team in the professionals and only ended his career after the 1966 cycling season at the age of 25 without having achieved a win.

Web links

• Portrait at www.radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 259 .