Italo Zilioli

Italo Zilioli

Personal information
Full name	Italo Zilioli
Born	(1941-09-24) 24 September 1941 (age 82) Turin, Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
1960–1962	VC Gios
Professional teams
1962–1964	Carpano
1965–1966	Sanson
1967	Salvarani
1968–1969	Filotex
1970	Faemino–Faema
1971	Ferretti
1972	Salvarani
1973–1974	Dreherforte
1975	Magniflex
1976	Furzi–Vibor
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1970) Giro d'Italia 5 individual stages (1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972) Stage races Tirreno–Adriatico (1971) Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme (1970) One-day races and Classics Züri-Metzgete (1966) Giro dell'Emilia (1963) Tre Valli Varesine (1963) Gran Piemonte (1970) Trofeo Laigueglia (1971)

Italo Zilioli (born 24 September 1941) is an Italian former professional cyclist.

Born in Turin, he won 58 races as a professional, including the 1966 Züri-Metzgete. He also totaled 5 stage wins at the Giro d'Italia; however, he never won the major tour of his country. He finished the Giro in the top 5 on six occasions and made the podium four times, finishing 2nd in 1964, 1965 and 1966, and finishing 3rd in 1969 as a member of Filotex.

During the 1970 Tour de France he won stage 2 and took over the Yellow jersey, which caused a minor controversy as it angered his teammate Eddy Merckx, who was anticipated to wear the jersey for the majority of the race and repeat as champion.^[1] Zilioli held the jersey for three stages before relinquishing it to Merckx.

Zilioli lives in the province of Cuneo (Piedmont) and is responsible for the stage starts for Giro d'Italia.