# Pino Cerami

Giuseppe "Pino" Cerami (28 April 1922 – 20 September 2014) was a Belgian road bicycle racer. He joined the professional peloton in 1946 as an independent. Born in Misterbianco, Sicily, Italy he was naturalised as a Belgian on 16 March 1956.
Cerami won the 1960 Paris–Roubaix Classic with Tino Sabbadini of France second and Miguel Poblet of Spain in third place. Cerami also won La Flèche Wallonne Classic in 1960. He was 3rd in the 1960 World Championship Road Race behind Rik Van Looy of Belgium and Frenchman André Darrigade. At the 1963 Tour de France, Cerami won the 9th stage at 41 years old; Cerami is the oldest Tour de France stage winner ever.
Since 1964 the Grand Prix Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium. Cerami died on 20 September 2014 after a long illness.

## Major results

Source:

### 1948

    1st GP Frans Melckenbeeck [nl]
    3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
    7th Giro di Lombardia
    8th overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    9th La Flèche Wallonne

### 1949

    4th La Flèche Wallonne
    6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

### 1950

    1st Championship of Hainaut
    2nd GP Brabant Wallon
    9th Milan–San Remo

### 1951

    1st Tour du Doubs
    1st Stages 3 & 5 Tour of Belgium
    7th overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

### 1952

    3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
    3rd Heistse Pijl
    4th overall Tour de Suisse
    7th overall Tour of Belgium
    7th Omloop Het Volk

### 1953

    1st Flèche Halloise
    2nd Giro di Lombardia
    3rd overall Tour of Belgium
    3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem
    10th overall Tour de Suisse

### 1954

    1st Ninove
    1st Stages 12, 13 & 14 (TTT) Tour d'Europe 1954 [fr]
    3rd Tour de Hesbaye
    4th Dwars door België
    7th overall Tour of Belgium
    10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

### 1955

    1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest
    1st GP Lucien Van Impe [nl]
    2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
    2nd Memorial Fred De Bruyne
    3rd Dokter Tistaertprijs Zottegem

### 1956

    2nd Ronde van Brabant
    7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    10th La Flèche Wallonne

### 1957

    1st Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Omloop Het Volk
    3rd Nokere Koerse
    8th Bordeaux–Paris

### 1958

    1st Stage 2 Tour de Picardie
    2nd Paris–Brussels
    2nd Tour de Romandie
    2nd Bordeaux–Paris
    3rd Grand Prix des Ardennes
    6th Giro di Lombardia
    6th Gent–Wevelgem
    7thOmloop Het Volk
    8th Tour of Flanders

### 1959

    1st Grand Prix de la Famenne
    3rd overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 3
    7th Bordeaux–Paris

### 1960

    1st Paris–Roubaix
    1st Flèche Wallonne
    2nd Super Prestige Pernod
    2nd Tour de Wallonie
    3rd Road race, UCI World Championships
    5th Bordeaux–Paris

### 1961

    1st Paris–Brussels
    1st Brabantse Pijl
    1st Tour de Wallonie
    1st Antwerpen-Ougrée
    8th Bordeaux–Paris

### 1962

    1st Tour de Wallonie
    1st Championship of Hainaut
    1st Antwerpen-Ougrée
    1st Grand Prix de la Basse-Sambre [fr]
    2nd Flèche Wallonne

### 1963

    1st Stage 9 Tour de France
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    2nd Weekend ardennais
    2nd Tour du Doubs
    2nd Trophée Stan Ockers
    6th Flèche Wallonne
    9th overall Tour of Belgium

### Tour de France

* 1949 - did not finish
* 1957 - 35th
* 1958 - did not finish
* 1962 - 81st
* 1963 - did not finish; winner 9th stage