Pietro Guerra

Pietro Guerra

To person
Date of birth	June 28, 1943
nation	Italy
discipline	Road, rail
height	1.71 m
Racing weight	71 kg
End of career	1974
Societies)
1963 1964–1966	GS Bruno Gaiga di Verona G.S. Bencini
Team (s)
1966–1967 1968–1972 1973–1974	Salamini-Luxor Salvarani Bianchi-Campagnolo
Last updated: July 31, 2020

Pietro Guerra (born June 28, 1943 in San Pietro di Morubio , Veneto ) is a former Italian cyclist . He was a professional from 1967 to 1974.

Athletic career

In 1964, Guerra won the 100 km team time trial with the Italian team at the World Championships in the French Alps . In the same year, Guerra won the silver medal in the 100 km team time trial with the same team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo . In 1965, in addition to the victories at Gran Premio Agostano and the Coppa Collecchionoch, he was able to repeat his world title in the 100 km team time trial and came third at the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore .

After his two stage successes, stage 2 and 10, at the Peace Race in 1966 and at the Gran Premio Industria del Cuoio e delle Pelli , Guerra again won the bronze medal in the 100 km team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 . He then began his professional career with the Italian cycling team Salamini . In 1967 he won the first stage of the Giro di Sardegna and was second in the overall standings. In 1968 he moved to the Salvarani team and stayed there for four years. During this time his two national titles fell in the individual pursuit in 1971 and 1972. In 1973 he moved to the Italian team Bianchi-Campagnolo . At the end of the 1974 season he ended his career.

Successes road

1967

• one stage Giro di Sardegna

1968

• a stage Vuelta a España

1969

• a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné

1970

• GP Cemab - Mirandola
• Overall ranking and one stage of the cronostafetta
• Coppa Bernocchi

1971

• a stage Tour de France

1972

• Giro di Romagna

1973

• a stage Tirreno – Adriatico

Success track

1971

• Italian champion - one's pursuit

1972

• Italian champion - one's pursuit

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974
Vuelta a España	-	46	-	-	-	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	32	-	-	-	70	DNF	106	94
Tour de France	-	DNF	81	70	68	86	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

• Pietro Guerra in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Pietro Guerra in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Pietro Guerra in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling - World Championships - 1964. In: the-sports.org. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English). 
2. ^ Pietro Guerra. In: olympedia.org. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ Results XIX. Peace Tour 1966 / Prague - Warsaw - Berlin / May 9th - 25th / 2340 km. In: friedensfahrt-info.de. Accessed July 31, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 238 .
5. ^ Giro di Sardegna 1967. In: cyclingarchives.com. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English).