Attilio Benfatto
Attilio Benfatto (born March 11, 1943 in Santa Maria di Sala , Veneto ; † April 5, 2017 in Mirano , Veneto) was an Italian cyclist .
Career
Attilio Benfatto 1963 Italian champion of amateurs in the team pursuit , the following year he was awarded the Italian railway Four ( Franco Testa , Vincenzo Mantovani and Carlo Rancati ) at the Track World Championships in Paris runners-up behind the German foursome. In 1966 the versatile Benfatto took part in the International Peace Tour and won a partial stage. In the same year he won the Italian roads quad at the UCI Road World Championships in Cologne third place in the team time trial . Then he went over to the professionals . At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 on the Nürburgring , he finished 45th in the amateurs road race .
During his time as a professional until 1977, Benfatto competed eight times in the Giro d'Italia , in 1969 and 1972 he won a stage each, also eight times in Milan – Sanremo and other tours and classics, but he could not achieve any major victories. From the beginning of the 1970s, Benfatto returned to the track and drove standing races . In this discipline he was Italian champion four times in a row from 1972 to 1975. At the 1974 UCI Track World Championships in Montreal , he was third among the standing professionals.
Web links
- Attilio Benfatto in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lutto nel ciclismo, morto Benfatto Più volte campione italiano su pista. In: Corriere Del Veneto. RCS MediaGroup SpA, April 5, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 (Italian).
- ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 229 .
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
1902 Battista Parini | 1903, 1904 Giosuè Giuppone | 1905 Giovanni Gerbi | 1906 Luigi Mori | 1908, 1909 Giulio Tagliavini | 1910, 1920, 1923 Carlo Bordoni | 1911, 1914 Battista Danesi | 1919 Carlo Galetti | 1921, 1922 Giorgio Colombatto | 1924–1929 Leopoldo Torricelli | 1930, 1931, 1935 Giovanni Manera | 1932 Federico Gay | 1933, 1941 Franco Giorgetti | 1934, 1936–1939 Edoardo Severgnini | 1940 Giuseppe Olmo | 1942 Learco Guerra | 1946–1950 Elia Frosio | 1951–1957 Giuseppe Martino | 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 Virginio Pizzali | 1960 Pietro Musone | 1963 Antonio Domenicali | 1964, 1968 Armando Pellegrini | 1965-1967, 1969-1971 Domenico De Lillo | 1972–1975 Attilio Benfatto | 1976 Walter Avogadri | 1977, 1979 Pietro Algeri | 1978, 1980–1985 Bruno Vicino | 1986–1989 Giovanni Renosto | 1993 Antonio Fanelli
The standing championship was not held continuously and in 1993 for the last time.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benfatto, Attilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Maria di Sala , Veneto , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th April 2017 |
| Place of death | Mirano , Veneto , Italy |