Dino Zandegù

Dino Zandegù (born May 31, 1940 in Rubano ) is a former Italian cyclist.

Athletic career

As an amateur, Zandegu achieved his greatest sporting success: World champion in the 100 km team race in 1962 in front of a home crowd in Salo - a year later he became vice world champion with the Italian four-man road and competed in the Tour de l'Avenir.

From 1964 to 1972 he was a professional driver and assistant to Felice Gimondi for five years. As a professional driver, he was able to achieve a total of 39 victories. His first win was also in his first year as a professional in 1964 with the Circuito di Foligni . He achieved his last victory during the Tour of Canada in 1972 with a stage win. His nickname was Il Cantante , the singing sprinter , because he sang a song after every victory on the podium. During the Tour of Flanders , which he won in 1967, it rained heavily, but that didn't stop him from singing O Sole Mio.

Professional

After his active career, which he ended at the age of 32, he was team leader at Brescialat for a short time in the 1990s .

successes

1965

• Giro della Romagna

1966

• 10th and 11th stage of the Giro d'Italia
• 2nd stage and overall victory at Tirreno-Adriatico

1967

• Tour of Flanders (in front of Noël Foré and Eddy Merckx )
• 4th and 18th stage as well as winning the points jersey at the Giro d'Italia
• Trofeo Matteotti
• Trofeo Masferrer

1969

• 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia
• 4th stage part A Tour de Romandie
• 8th stage of the Tour de Suisse
• Giro della Romagna
• Trofeo Masferrer

1970

• 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia

Teams

• 1964 - Cynar
• 1965 - Bianchi-Mobylette
• 1966 - Bianchi-Mobylette
• 1967 - Salvarani
• 1968 - Salvarani
• 1969 - Salvarani
• 1970 - Salvarani
• 1971 - Salvarani
• 1972 - GBC-Sony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 388 (Italian).

Web links

• Dino Zandegù in the Radsportseiten.net database