Pietro Bestetti

Pietro Bestetti
To person
Full name	Pietro Bestetti
Nickname	Pierino
Date of birth	December 1, 1898
date of death	January 3, 1936
nation	Italy
discipline	Road cycling, track cycling
Team (s)
1922 ; 1923 ; 1924 ; 1925–1926 ; 1927 ; 1928 ; 1929 ; 1930–1932	Maino-Bergougnan ; Berettini-Monza ; Maino ; Wolsit-Pirelli ; Diamond; Maino-Dunlop ; Bianchi-Pirelli ; Bestett-d'Alessandro
Most important successes
	Giro d'Italia 1925 : one stage 1926 : one stage Road racing 1923 : Tour du Lac Léman
	Last updated: May 31, 2015

Pietro "Pierino" Bestetti (born December 1, 1898 in Pioltello , † January 3, 1936 in Milan ) was an Italian cyclist.

In 1919 Pietro Bestetti won the first edition of Tre Valli Varesini . The following year he became Italian champion in the amateur road race . As a result, he started at the Olympic Games in Antwerp that same year . He finished 21st in the road race and fifth in the team classification together with the Italian national team ( Federico Gay , Camillo Arduino and Dante Ghidani ).

After the Olympics, Bestetti turned professional . In 1923 he won the Tour du Lac Léman and in 1924 the Giro dell'Umbria . In 1925 he won the third stage of the Giro d'Italia and finished seventh overall. He finished second at Paris-Roubaix , making it the first Italian to finish on the podium in this race. In 1926 he won the tenth stage of the Giro and came in sixth overall. In total, he took part in the Giro seven times and in Milan-Sanremo nine times . He also started in six-day races : in 1927 he finished third together with Alfredo Dinale in Milan and again in Nice in 1928 , together with German Michael Damerow . In 1931 he ended his active cycling career.

1936 Pietro Bestetti died at the age of 37 years at a pneumonia . His younger brother Angelo was also an active cyclist.

Web links

Pietro Bestetti in the Radsportseiten.net database

Pietro Bestetti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Pietro Bestetti bicyclist pioltellese arriva 2 ° alla Parigi-Roubaix. In: pioltelloinbici.wordpress.com. November 17, 2013, accessed May 31, 2015 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Bestetti, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bestetti, Pierino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pioltello
DATE OF DEATH	January 3, 1936
Place of death	Milan

[1] Pietro Bestetti bicyclist pioltellese arriva 2 ° alla Parigi-Roubaix. In: pioltelloinbici.wordpress.com. November 17, 2013, accessed May 31, 2015 (Italian).