Enrico Zaina

Enrico Zaina
To person
Date of birth	September 27, 1967
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Driver type	climber
End of career	2000
Most important successes
	three stages of the Giro d'Italia a stage Vuelta a España
	Last updated: January 3, 2019

Enrico Zaina (born September 27, 1967 in Brescia , Lombardy ) is a former Italian cyclist .

Athletic career

After winning the Trofeo Franco Balestra and the Giro della Valle d'Aosta among the amateurs , he joined the Carrera Jeans team in 1989 .

Due to his climbing skills, he has celebrated his greatest successes in mountain stages or mountain finishes in stage races . He celebrated his greatest success at the Giro d'Italia in 1996 , where he finished the 9th stage and the 20th stage as the first. With the victory on the 20th stage and a time advantage on the last stage over Abraham Olano , who was the overall leader up to the 20th stage, he secured second place behind Pavel Tonkow and ahead of Abraham Olano. He was able to celebrate further successes with a stage win at the Vuelta a España in 1992 and fourth overall at the Vuelta a España in 1997 . After moving to Marco Pantani's team Mercatone Uno , he achieved his last victory on the third stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda in 1999. Following the 2000 season, he ended his road career.