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Del Tongo (cycling team)

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UCI code
  
DEL

Founded
  
1982 (1982)

Discipline
  
Road

Registered
  
Italy

Disbanded
  
1991

Bicycles
  
Colnago (1982–1988) Pinarello (1989–1991)

Del Tongo (UCI team code: DEL) was an Italian professional cycling team that was active between 1982 and 1991. The team disbanded, but provided the basis for Lampre.

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History

The team was led primarily by two Italian sports directors: Pietro Algeri and Paolo Abetoni. They won the 1983 Giro d'Italia with Giuseppe Saronni. They only participated once in the Tour de France, in 1987. In 1992, the team stops but a new team, MG Maglificio was formed by Algeri and Abetoni along with Belgians Roger de Vlaeminck and Patrick Lefevere.

Notable riders

  • Giuseppe Saronni  Italy
  • Guido Van Calster  Belgium
  • Dietrich Thurau  Germany
  • Rolf Gölz  Germany
  • Gianbattista Baronchelli  Italy
  • Mario Cipollini  Italy
  • Maurizio Fondriest  Italy
  • Franco Ballerini  Italy
  • Fabio Baldato  Italy

    • Major One-Day Races

  • Giro di Lombardia
  • 1982 Giuseppe Saronni  Italy
  • 1986 Gianbattista Baronchelli  Italy
  • Milan–San Remo
  • 1983 Giuseppe Saronni  Italy
  • Grand Prix des Amériques
  • 1990 Franco Ballerini  Italy

    • Giro d'Italia

  • General Classification (1983) - Giuseppe Saronni  Italy
  • 14 stages (3 in 1982, 3 in 1983, 1 in 1984, 1 in 1985, 1 in 1989, 2 in 1990 and 3 in 1991)

    • Vuelta a España

  • 4 stages (2 in 1983, 2 in 1984)

    • Other races

  • 2 stages in the Tour of Germany (2 in 1982)
  • General Classification Tour de Suisse (1982)
  • 3 stages in the Tour de Suisse (3 in 1982)
  • General Classification Tirreno–Adriatico (1982)
  • 4 stages in the Tirreno–Adriatico (2 in 1982, 2 in 1987)
  • 1 stage in the Tour de Romandie (in 1987)
  • 1 stage in the Tour de Catalogne (in 1988)

    • References

    Del Tongo (cycling team) Wikipedia
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