Angelo Conterno (13 March 1925 – 1 December 2007) was an Italian professional

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during the 1950s and early 1960s who is most famous for becoming the first Italian to win the

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the ...

. At the 1956 Vuelta after winning Stage 2 and capturing the golden jersey, Conterno, in one of the closest Vuelta's in history, outlasted

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Jesus Loroño to win the overall title by just 13 seconds. The following year, Loroño won the 1957 Vuelta a España without Conterno in attendance. Earlier in his career, Conterno wore the pink jersey as leader of the

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for a day when he won the second stage of the 1952 Giro d'Italia. Beyond his three-stage victories in the Giro d'Italia, he won the 1959

Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete ( Zürich German; en, Championship of Zürich; german: Meisterschaft von Zürich) was a European Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 unt ...

Major achievements

;1952 – Frejus : 5th, Overall, Giro d’Italia :: 1st, Stage 2, ( Abetone -

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, 197 km) ::

leader (after Stage 2) ;1953 – Frejus : 5th, Overall, Giro d'Italia ;1954 – Frejus : 1st, Giro di Lazio : 3rd, Giro del Piemonte : 10th, Overall, Giro d'Italia :: 1st, Stage 4, (

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- Bari, 352 km) ;1955 – Torpado : 2nd, Giro del Piemonte : 3rd,

Giro di Lombardia The Giro di Lombardia ( en, Tour of Lombardy), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five 'Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in ...

: 18th, Overall, Giro d’Italia :: 1st, Stage 18, (

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, 236 km) ;1956 : Jersey yellow

1st, Overall,

:: 1st, Stage 2, ( Santander -

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, 248 km) : 41st, Overall,

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ...

;1957 : 1st, Giro del Veneto : 3rd, Giro dell'Emilia : 3rd, Tre Valli Varesine ;1958 : 3rd,

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...

;1959 : 1st,

: 3rd, Giro di Lazio ;1960 : 3rd,

Tre Valli Varesine The Tre Valli Varesine is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Varese, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions w ...

;1961 : 1st, Giro del Piemonte : 2nd,

Milano–Torino Milano–Torino is a semi classic European single day cycling race, between the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin over a distance of 199 kilometres. The event was first run in 1876 making it the oldest classic race in the world. The ev ...

;1963 : 2nd, Züri-Metzgete

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* 1925 births 2007 deaths Cyclists from Turin Italian male cyclists Vuelta a España winners Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Italian Vuelta a España stage winners {{Italy-cycling-bio-1920s-stub