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 .
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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 |