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Place of Birth: Gazzaniga, Lombardy, Italy
About Giuseppe Guerini
- Giuseppe Guerini (born 14 February 1970) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
- He was known throughout his career as a climbing specialist and had pronounced success in cycling's Grand Tour events.
- He completed six editions of the Tour de France, five Vuelta a España's and four Giro's, managing two third-place finishes in the 1997 and 1998 Giro d'Italia. He began his professional career in 1993 with Navigare and subsequently joined Team Polti in 1996.
- It was during his tenure with team Polti that he achieved two podium finishes at the Giro d'Italia.
- He then switched to the German T-Mobile Team from 1999 to 2007.
- He retired from cycling at the end of 2007. Further career highlights include a stage win in the 1998 Route du Sud, a stage win in the 1998 Volta a Portugal, a stage win in the 1999 Tour de France and again in the 2005 Tour de France, a stage win in the 2002 Catalan Week, and second place in the 2003 Tour de Suisse. He is also remembered for an incident during the 1999 Tour de France when a cycling fan knocked him off his bicycle during the race.
- Guerini was leading the field only a few hundred meters from the finish of the difficult Alpe d'Huez stage but was able to remount his bicycle and finish 21 seconds ahead of Pavel Tonkov. Guerini is a native of Gazzaniga, Lombardy.
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