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

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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

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