Salvatore Commesso

Salvatore Commesso
	Commesso at the 2007 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Salvatore Commesso
Nickname	Toto
Born	March 28, 1975 (age 49); Torre del Greco, Italy
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
1994	S.C. Villa d'Almè
1995	Cosmos GMG
1996–1997	Casini–Vellutex
1996	Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino (stagiaire)
Professional teams
1998–2004	Saeco–Cannondale
2005–2006	Lampre–Caffita
2007	Tinkoff Credit Systems
2008	Preti Mangimi
2009	Meridiana–Kalev Chocolate
2010	Meridiana–Kamen
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1999, 2000) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1999, 2002)
Medal record
Road cycling
Representing Czech Republic
European Under-23 Road Championships
Mediterranean Games

Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.

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He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he placed in third in the Grand Prix de Suisse and the Giro del Capo. He won the Italian National Road Race Championships and Stage 13 of the Tour de France in 1999.

Commesso won Stage 18 of the 2000 Tour de France and won the points competition in the Volta a Portugal in 2001.

In 2002, he again won the Italian Championship, as well as the Trofeo Matteotti and the Criterium d'Abruzzo.

He rode for the Saeco–Cannondale team from 1998 to 2004. In 2005, the team merged with Lampre–Caffita, with whom he came in second in the Giro del Veneto.

He rode for Lampre in the 2006 Tour de France and finished second in Stage 14.

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1996

1st Giro del Mendrisiotto

1997

1st