 Commesso at the 2007 Tour of Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Salvatore Commesso | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Toto | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 28, 1975 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer.
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.