Pino Cerami

Pino Cerami

Cerami while at Peugeot-BP-Dunlop around 1960
Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Cerami
Nickname	Pino
Born	(1922-04-28)28 April 1922[1] Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy
Died	20 September 2014(2014-09-20) (aged 92)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Amateur team
1937–45	-
Professional teams
1946–1947	Independent
1948	Metropole-Dunlop
1949–1954	Peugeot-Dunlop
1955–1956	Elvé-Peugeot
1957	Peugeot-BP
1958	Elvé-Peugeot-Marvan
1959–1962	Peugeot-BP-Dunlop
1963	Peugeot-BP
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1963) Other stage races Tour of Belgium (1957) One-day races and Classics Paris–Roubaix (1960) La Flèche Wallonne (1960) Brabantse Pijl (1961) Paris–Brussels (1961)
Medal record Men's road bicycle racing Representing  Belgium World Championships 1960 Karl Marx Stadt Elite Men's Road Race

Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami (28 April 1922^[1] – 20 September 2014) was a Belgian road bicycle racer. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. Born in Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy he was naturalised as a Belgian on 16 March 1956.

Cerami won the 1960 Paris–Roubaix Classic with Tino Sabbadini of France second and Miguel Poblet of Spain in third place. Cerami also won La Flèche Wallonne Classic in 1960. He was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade.^[2] At the 1963 Tour de France, Cerami won the 9th stage at 41 years old; Cerami is the oldest Tour de France stage winner ever.^[3]

Since 1964 the Grand Prix Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium. Cerami died on 20 September 2014 after a long illness.^[4]