Vittorio Adorni

Vittorio Adorni (born November 14, 1937 in San Lazzaro di Parma ) is a former Italian cyclist and current president of the Professional Cyclists Association in Italy.

Career

In 1957 Vittorio Adorni began his sporting career as an amateur at the age of 19 . He quickly developed into a versatile racing driver. Whether on the track , in the time trial or in the mountains, every type of route was really suitable for him. Just the sprint wasn't his forte. He ended his track racing career after he was only nominated as a substitute driver for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , although he was Italian champion in the singles pursuit . Vittorio Adorni was active as a professional driver from 1961 to 1970, during which time he achieved a total of 57 victories.

Adorni was trained by Learco Guerra , the 1931 road world champion . Under him, Adorni developed into a professional road racing driver, who will drive alongside his former idols such as Jacques Anquetil , Rik Van Steenbergen and Charly Gaul on Italy's roads in the future . In 1963 he celebrated his first major success with a second place in the Giro d'Italia after winning two stages. In 1965 he won the Giro d'Italia , where after 4151 km he distanced Felice Gimondi and Italo Zilioli by more than eleven minutes. He won three individual stages; he achieved a victory in the 50 km time trial. Overall, he started ten times in the Giro, never retired and only came in his first start in 1961 (28th) not among the top twelve places in the overall individual ranking. In 1968 he became world champion in the professional road race in his native Imola , nine minutes ahead of the runner-up. He won the Tour de Suisse in 1969 with a margin of 3:48 minutes and was also the Italian road racing champion that year. Adorni started once in the Tour de France , he was 10th in 1964. He was considered one of the best tacticians and masters of the bluff in the races of his time. For example, when he won the Tour of Belgium in 1961, he got rid of most of his racing clothes on a stage when his competitors asked for warm clothes. The trick worked and his colleagues were impressed by the Italian's resistance to cold so that no one attacked him. Adorni won the stage.

doping

In 1968 Adorni was proven doping : amphetamines and an attempted fraud during a control, he was therefore repeatedly banned for a short time.

Professional

During his active career, Adorni worked part-time as a show master for a television station. After finishing his active cycling career, he became sports director and won the road world championships in 1972 and 1973 with his riders Marino Basso and Felice Gimondi . From 1974 he was responsible for the financing of various sporting events and took care of sponsors. Among other things, he worked for the Ski World Cup, the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . He was also responsible for public relations for the Italian Cycling Federation. He worked as a journalist for various newspapers and Italian television. He has been running his own insurance office since 1976.

Since 2001 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the World Cycling Federation (UCI), Chairman of the Council of Professional Cycling at the UCI; He is also a member of the IOC Commission for Culture and Education.

Private

Adorni married in 1964 and has two children.

Oddities

At the beginning of 1968 Adorni had problems with the management of his team at the time, Faema, because he had accepted a job as a quiz master on television. The consequences were: too little training and poor performance. He had to pay a contractual penalty of 100,000 lire (around 700 German marks at the time ). It was only in a test race that he was able to qualify for the World Cup line-up in tenth and last place and then became world champion.

Teams

1961 VOV (with Bahamontes ) 1962 Philco 1963 Cynar (with Baldini) 1964–1996 Salvarani (with Baldini, Gimondi )	1967 Salamini-Luxor 1968 Faema (with Merckx , Sercu ) 1969-1970 SCIC

successes

• 89 wins as a professional
• 30 wins as an amateur
• 1963 Second Giro d'Italia
• 1963 Third Liège – Bastogne – Liège
• 1964 Vice World Champion Road
• 1964 Second Trofeo Baracchi (with Ercole Baldini )
• 1964 Third Liège – Bastogne – Liège
• 1965 winner of the Giro d'Italia
• 1965 Italian vice-champion street
• 1965 winner of the Tour de Romandie
• 1965 Second Milan-San Remo
• 1965 Second Liège-Bastogne-Liège
• 1966 Third Paris – Nice
• 1966 Winner Tour of Belgium
• 1967 Third Italian championship road
• 1967 winner of the Tour de Romandie
• 1968 world champion in road racing
• 1968 Second Giro d'Italia
• 1969 Italian road champion
• 1969 Tour de Suisse winner + two stage wins
• 1969 Second Tour de Romandie
• 1969 total of twelve stage victories in the Giro d'Italia

Web links

Commons : Vittorio Adorni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vittorio Adorni in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vittorio Adorni in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Detailed portrait

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 17 (Italian).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cycling4Fans - Portraits: In Memoriam: Adorni, Vittorio. In: cycling4fans.de. Retrieved January 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Cycling - doping cases on cycling4fans.de
4. ↑ Bernd Frye: "There can be no talk of a new beginning", Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, February 21, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ uci.ch ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Helmer Boelsen : The History of the World Cycling Championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 108, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4