Vito Di Tano

Vito Di Tano (born September 23, 1954 in Monopoli ) is a former Italian cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Di Tano started his career as a road rider after he started cycling in 1969. He was a member of the Italian national team and started in 1974 in the Yugoslavia Tour , which he finished third. Later he turned to the cross-country sport and specialized in cross-country races, in which he achieved his most significant successes. In 1979 he became world champion for the first time on an extremely difficult track in Saccolongo , where he had just finished third in the national championships , mainly thanks to strong mileage . In 1986 he was again world champion ahead of the Belgian Ivan Messelis. In total, he placed seven times among the top ten drivers in thirteen starts at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships . 1980, 1982-1984 and 1986-1987 he was also the Italian champion in cyclo-cross racing, he won six national titles. Di Tano started for the GS Guerciotti club. In total, he had 176 victories in his career.

Web links

Vito Di Tano in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 6/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
↑ Museo del Ciclismo - Storia di Vito Di Tano. In: museociclismo.it. Retrieved January 15, 2020 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Di Tano, Vito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cyclist, world champion in cycling
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monopoli

[1] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 6/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .

[museocic-1651-2] Museo del Ciclismo - Storia di Vito Di Tano. In: museociclismo.it. Retrieved January 15, 2020 (Italian).