Rocco Cattaneo

Rocco Cattaneo
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Date of birth	December 6, 1958
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Street
End of career	1994
	Last updated: August 30, 2018

Rocco Cattaneo

Rocco Nicola Luigi Cattaneo (born December 6, 1958 in Lugano ) is a Swiss politician ( FDP ), entrepreneur, cycling official and former cyclist . He is president of the European cycling association UEC . He has been a member of the National Council since November 2017 .

Athletic career

In 1976 Rocco Cattaneo became Swiss junior road racing champion. In 1980 he was part of the Swiss team on the International Peace Tour. In the overall ranking he finished 24th. In 1981 he won a stage of the Giro della Valsesia and in 1985 a stage at the Grand Prix Guillaume Tell . In 1986 he started at the Giro d'Italia and finished 30th overall, and in 1987 he was fifth in the Tour de Suisse . He took part in the Giro d'Italia twice, competed in two Tour de Suisse events and competed four times in road world championships . In 1994 he ended his active sports career.

Cattaneo also competed in cycling races afterwards. In 2017 he won the Maratona dles Dolomites in his age group.

Entrepreneurs and politicians

Rocco Cattaneo took over City Carburoil SA , which his father Egidio had built up . The company is based in Monteceneri , employs 300 people and operates petrol stations and motorway service stations, among other things. Cattaneo is also involved in the Monte Tamaro Railway and the Splash & Spa Tamaro water park . His father had the Santa Maria degli Angeli chapel built by Mario Botta in memory of his wife, who died early .

Cattaneo sat on the municipal council of his hometown Bironico for three legislative periods and was chairman of the Ticino FDP from 2012 to 2017 . He is one of the supporters of the popular initiative "To promote the bicycle, foot and hiking trails (Velo-Initiative)", according to which, among other things, the promotion of bicycles is to be enshrined in the federal constitution and a federal responsibility.

As the successor to Ignazio Cassis , who was elected to the Federal Council in 2017 , Cattaneo was sworn in as a member of the National Council on November 27, 2017 .

Cattaneo is married and has three daughters.

Sports official

From 1989 to 1994 and from 2001 to 2003 Cattaneo was a board member of the Swiss cycling association Swiss Cycling . He was president of the organizing committees for the UCI Road World Championships 1996 in Lugano and the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in 2003. In March 2013 he was elected Vice President of the UEC, of which he was a member from 2005 to 2013. Since 2006 he has been Vice President of the World Cycling Center Foundation in Aigle .

In September 2017, Rocco Cattaneo was elected interim president of the European cycling association UEC in an extraordinary meeting , after his predecessor David Lappartient had recently been elected president of the world cycling association UCI . On March 11, 2018, he was confirmed in his office as President at the UEC Delegate Assembly in Istanbul .

successes

1976

Swiss junior champions - street races

Teams

1986 Cilo-Aufina
1987 Paini
1994 Saxon-Selle Italia

Web links

Rocco Cattaneo on the website of the Federal Assembly ( proposals submitted )

Rocco Cattaneo's interests on lobbywatch.ch

Rocco Cattaneo in the Radsportseiten.net database

Rocco Cattaneo in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Gerhard Lob: By bike to the swearing-in - from Ticino: This is Ignazio Cassis' successor in parliament. In: Aargauer Zeitung from October 4, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Commercial register data in: moneyhouse.ch , accessed on September 24, 2017.

↑ Rocco Cattaneo on the website of the Federal Assembly ( proposals submitted )

↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 231 .

↑ The most important minor matters of election morning. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

↑ ^a ^b Back to success with Cattaneo. In: tagblatt.ch. November 19, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

↑ The Velo takes the initiative ›Velo. In: velofahrer.ch. May 5, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .

↑ This is the new Ticino National Council. In: Berner Zeitung. September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

↑ UCI: Lappartient new President - Toni Kirsch elected to the Management Committee. rad-net.de, September 21, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017 .

↑ Press release of the UEC v. September 21, 2017.

↑ Press release of the UEC v. March 11, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Cattaneo, Rocco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cattaneo, Rocco Nicola Luigi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician, entrepreneur, cycling official and former cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lugano

[1] Commercial register data in: moneyhouse.ch , accessed on September 24, 2017.

[2] Rocco Cattaneo on the website of the Federal Assembly ( proposals submitted )

[3] Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 231 .

[zür-4] The most important minor matters of election morning. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

[tag-5] Back to success with Cattaneo. In: tagblatt.ch. November 19, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

[velofahr-201503-6] The Velo takes the initiative ›Velo. In: velofahrer.ch. May 5, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .

[bernerze-649230-7] This is the new Ticino National Council. In: Berner Zeitung. September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .

[8] UCI: Lappartient new President - Toni Kirsch elected to the Management Committee. rad-net.de, September 21, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017 .

[UEC-9] Press release of the UEC v. September 21, 2017.

[10] Press release of the UEC v. March 11, 2018.