Giovanni Fidanza

Giovanni Fidanza

Giovanni Fidanza (1997)
To person
Date of birth	September 27, 1965
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Eurotarget-Bianchi-Vittoria
function	Sports director
Most important successes
Grand Tours a stage of the Tour de France 1989 a stage of the Giro d'Italia 1990
Last updated: November 3, 2019

Giovanni Fidanza (born September 27, 1965 in Bergamo ) is an Italian sports director and former cyclist .

Athletic career

In the spring of 1988 Giovanni Fidanza won the Coppa San Geo , one of the most important amateur races in Italy, as well as a stage of the International Peace Ride , which he finished in 28th place overall.

In 1989 Finanza received a professional contract with the Chateau d'Ax cycling team . In the same year he decided a stage of the Tour de France for himself and won the points classification of the Giro d'Italia . In 1990 he won a stage of the Giro d'Italia . In total, he made 13 major country tours in the course of his career .

Professional and family

After his active career, Giovanni Fidanza became the sporting director in various cycling teams, first in the men's division from 1998 with Team Polti , then from 2003 to 2006 with Team Telekom , 2007 Team Astana and 2008 with LPR Brakes .

In 2010 he was the sporting director of the De Rosa-Ceramica Flaminia team and - because of his daughters Arianna , Martina , Paola and Eleonora, who are also cyclists - the sporting director of the women's cycling team Eurotarget Tx Active . In 2015 and 2017 he held this role for UCI Women's Teams Alé Cipollini and Astana Women's Team , for which his daughter Aranna also drove. In 2018 he returned to Eurotarget, which registered as the UCI Women's Team and for which Arianna and her sister Martina also drove.

successes

1988

• a stage of the peace journey

1989

• two stages Vuelta a Venezuela
• Scoring of the Giro d'Italia
• a stage Tour de France

1990

• a stage of the Giro d'Italia

1993

• a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
• a stage Tour de Romandie

1995

• a stage Tour de Romandie

Important placements

Grand Tours

Grand Tour	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Giro d'Italia	110	133	110	118	-	74	94	-
Tour de France	127	147	-	103	125	110	108	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	118	-	-	-	-	-

Monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Milan – Sanremo	-	73	55	75	162	151	19th	79
Tour of Flanders	23	20th	-	101	56	-	25th	48
Paris – Roubaix	-	86	-	27	-	17th	74	-
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lombardy tour	-	-	-	22nd	-	-	45	-

Web links

• Giovanni Fidanza as a cyclist in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Giovanni Fidanza as team leader in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Giovanni Fidanza in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• the-sports.org
• cyclebase.nl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 236 .
2. ↑ Bergamo-Sport , www.newsciclismo.com ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian)