Vito Taccone

Italian cyclist

Vito Taccone
Personal information
Taccone at the 1965 Giro d'Italia
Full name	Vito Taccone
Born	(1940-05-06)6 May 1940 Avezzano, Italy
Died	15 October 2007(2007-10-15) (aged 67) Avezzano, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1961–1962	Atala
1963	Lygie
1964–1965	Salvarani
1966	Vittadello
1967–1969	Germanvox-Wega
1970	Cosatto-Marsicano

Major wins
Giro d'Italia, 7 stages Mountains classification 1961, 1963 Giro di Lombardia (1961) Tre Giorni del Sud (1961) Giro del Piemonte (1962) Giro di Toscana (1963) Tempio di Pausania (1963) Giro di Campania (1964) Milano–Torino (1965) Trofeo Matteotti (1966)

Vito Taccone (6 May 1940 – 15 October 2007) was an Italian road cyclist.

Taccone made his professional debut in 1961. In the same year he won the Giro di Lombardia. During the 1964 Tour de France, he was accused of causing other cyclists to fall ^{[citation needed]}, leading to a fight with Spanish racer Fernando Manzaneque and his non-appearance in following tours.

His other victories include one Giro del Piemonte (1962), one Giro della Toscana (1963), one Milano–Torino (1965) and five stages overall at the 1963 Giro d'Italia.^[1]

In June 2007, he was arrested and charged with selling counterfeit and stolen clothing.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Former Italian cyclist Taccone dies". Reuters. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2010.

External links

Media related to Vito Taccone at Wikimedia Commons

La Stampa obituary (Italian)
Vito Taccone at Cycling Archives

Giro d'Italia mountains classification winners

v t e Giro di Lombardia winners
1900–1919	Giovanni Gerbi (1905) Cesare Brambilla (1906) Gustave Garrigou (1907) François Faber (1908) Giovanni Cuniolo (1909) Giovanni Micheletto (1910) Henri Pélissier (1911) Carlo Oriani (1912) Henri Pélissier (1913) Lauro Bordin (1914) Gaetano Belloni (1915) Leopoldo Torricelli (1916) Philippe Thys (1917) Gaetano Belloni (1918) Costante Girardengo (1919)
1920–1939	Henri Pélissier (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921–1922) Giovanni Brunero (1923–1924) Alfredo Binda (1925–1927) Gaetano Belloni (1928) Pietro Fossati (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Antonio Negrini (1932) Domenico Piemontesi (1933) Learco Guerra (1934) Enrico Mollo (1935) Gino Bartali (1936) Aldo Bini (1937) Cino Cinelli (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Mario Ricci (1941) Aldo Bini (1942) (1943–1944, not held) Mario Ricci (1945) Fausto Coppi (1946–1949) Renzo Soldani (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Giuseppe Minardi (1952) Bruno Landi (1953) Fausto Coppi (1954) Cleto Maule (1955) André Darrigade (1956) Diego Ronchini (1957) Nino Defilippis (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)
1960–1979	Emile Daems (1960) Vito Taccone (1961) Jo de Roo (1962–1963) Gianni Motta (1964) Tom Simpson (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Franco Bitossi (1967) Herman Van Springel (1968) Jean-Pierre Monseré (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Felice Gimondi (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Roger De Vlaeminck (1976) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1977) Francesco Moser (1978) Bernard Hinault (1979)
1980–1999	Alfons De Wolf (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) Giuseppe Saronni (1982) Sean Kelly (1983) Bernard Hinault (1984) Sean Kelly (1985) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1986) Moreno Argentin (1987) Charly Mottet (1988) Tony Rominger (1989) Gilles Delion (1990) Sean Kelly (1991) Tony Rominger (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Vladislav Bobrik (1994) Gianni Faresin (1995) Andrea Tafi (1996) Laurent Jalabert (1997) Oscar Camenzind (1998) Mirko Celestino (1999)
2000–2019	Raimondas Rumšas (2000) Danilo Di Luca (2001) Michele Bartoli (2002–2003) Damiano Cunego (2004) Paolo Bettini (2005–2006) Damiano Cunego (2007–2008) Philippe Gilbert (2009–2010) Oliver Zaugg (2011) Joaquim Rodríguez (2012–2013) Dan Martin (2014) Vincenzo Nibali (2015) Esteban Chaves (2016) Vincenzo Nibali (2017) Thibaut Pinot (2018) Bauke Mollema (2019)
2020–2039	Jakob Fuglsang (2020) Tadej Pogačar (2021–23)