Pino Cerami

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Pino Cerami Road cycling
To person
Full name Giuseppe Cerami
Date of birth April 28, 1922
date of death 20th September 2014
nation ItalyItaly Italy (1922–1956) Belgium (from 1956)
BelgiumBelgium 
discipline Street
End of career 1963
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
1960 bronze - street racing
classic
1960 Paris – Roubaix
1960 La Flèche Wallonne
Last updated: May 5, 2019
Paving stone in honor of Pino Cerami on the Allée Charles Crupelandt in Roubaix

Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami (born April 28, 1922 in Misterbianco , Italy , † September 20, 2014 in Gerpinnes ) was an Italian - Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Pino Cerami was born in Ministerbianco, a suburb of Catania in Sicily . When he was five years old, his family - he also had an older brother - left Italy. Their actual destination was the USA , but due to a lack of papers the family ended up first in France and later near Charleroi in Belgium. The father, who had various activities, was a cycling fan and read the cycling newspaper L'Auto regularly . Pino Cerami started cycling at the age of eleven and after graduating from school he cycled to work in a glass factory in Charleroi. According to other representations he is in Wallonia and in coal mining have worked. In 1956 he took Belgian citizenship.

From 1947 onwards, Cerami concentrated on his cycling career after having worked in Germany for a year. He was active as a professional racing driver until 1964. During this time he won numerous smaller races, criteria and stages of tours ; he achieved a total of 56 victories. Six times he placed in the top ten at the Tour of Belgium , in 1957 he was the winner.

His greatest successes were the respective victories at Paris-Roubaix and the Flèche Wallonne in 1960. In the same year he was third in the road world championships at the Sachsenring . In the 1963 Tour de France , Cerami won the ninth stage at the age of 41, making him the oldest rider to have succeeded (as of 2017). Pino Cerami died in 2014 at the age of 92 after a long and serious illness.

Honors

Two days before his death he was honored as “Officier van Waalse Merits”, but was no longer able to receive this award personally because of his illness.

The one-day GP Pino Cerami race has been held annually in the Belgian province of Hainaut since 1964 .

family

Pino Cerami's nephew of the same name (* 1963) was also a professional cyclist from 1987 to 1989.

successes

1951
1954
1955
1957
  • Overall ranking and a stage Tour of Belgium
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963

Important placements

Grand Tours
Grand Tour 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 24 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - DNF - - - - - - - 35 DNF - - - 81 DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Milan – Sanremo
Tour of Flanders - - - - - - - - - - 8th - - - - -
Paris – Roubaix 36 - 49 40 - 52 - 58 25th 34 16 - 1 23 14th -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - 6th 31 31 26th - 10 - - - - - - - - 2
Lombardy tour - - - - - 2 - - 7th - - - - - - -

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References and comments

  1. ↑ There is also the indication of March 28, 1922 in various sources, cf. such as Harry Van den Bremt, Joël Godaert, Paul De Keyer: Gotha Velo . Velo - Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2005, ISBN 90-804763-3-1 , p. 103 . In contrast, April 28, 1922 is given in: Udo Witte: Campionissimo, Monsieur Chrono, Kannibale & Co. Professional road bike races after 1945, Volume 1: 1946-1959 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, pp. 66 . ; Claude Sudres: Dictionnaire du cyclisme . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-7021-1347-8 , pp. 69 . In the family's obituary notice , April 28 is the date of birth, so this date is considered authoritative: Pino Cerami. In: Defunt.be. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Stephane Thirion: Le cycliste Pino Cerami est décédé. Obituary in Le Soir of September 20, 2014 (French, accessed September 29, 2014).
  3. ↑ Dries Vanysacker: Koersend door en eeuw. Italiaanse en Belgian divorced . acco, Leuven 2009, ISBN 978-90-334-7361-6 , pp. 168 .
  4. ↑ a b Si spegne Pino Cerami, “il belga di Misterbianco”. In: itasportpress.it. September 20, 2014, accessed October 21, 2019 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Palmarès de Pino Cerami (Bel). In: memoire-du-cyclisme.eu. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Dries Vanysacker: Koersend door en eeuw. Italiaanse en Belgian divorced . acco, Leuven 2009, ISBN 978-90-334-7361-6 , pp. 168 .
  7. ↑ Passing overleden to ex-renner Pino Cerami (92). In: hln.be. September 20, 2014, accessed May 5, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Cerami, Pino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerami, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Misterbianco
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2014
Place of death Gerpinnes