Fabio Casartelli Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Fabio Casartelli was a world-class Italian cyclist, born August 1, 1970 near Como, Italy and died on the roads of the Col de Portet d'Aspet, France, July 18, 1995 in a crash on the descent from that Col during the 15th stage of the Tour de France.
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Fabio Casartelli showed great promise as an amateur competitive cyclist. He had many important wins and placings in 1990-1992, climaxing in winning a gold medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics road race. He finished the 194 km race in 4:35:21, 1 second ahead of the silver medalist Erik Dekker of the Netherlands and 3 seconds ahead of bronze medalist Dainis Ozols of Latvia.
Amateur results:
1990
Starting in 1993, Fabio started his career as a professional cyclist with the team Ariostea. He won a stage in the Settimana Bergamasca race, had a second placing in a stage of the Tour of Switzerland and finished the Giro d'Italia. In 1994 he moved to team ZG-Mobili. For his third professional year, he moved to the Motorola team. He placed sixth in the Spanish Clásica de Almería and a third place finish the second stage of the Spanish Tour of Murcia. Fabio was selected to represent his team for the 1995 Tour de France along with Alvaro Mejia, Frankie Andreu, Lance Armstrong, Steve Bauer, Kaspars Ozers, Andrea Peron, Jack Swart and Sean Yates.
Teams
On July 18th during the fifteenth stage of the race, Fabio Casartelli and a few other riders crashed on the descent of the Col de Portet d’Aspet in the Pyrenees. Fabio sustained heavy facial and head injuries and lost consciousness. While being transport via helicopter ambulance to a local hospital, Fabio trice stopped breathing and after numerous recitations attempts was declared dead. Many have claimed if Fabio had been wearing a modern bicycle helmet his life may have been saved. Others have claimed his injuries were to areas of the head not protected by cycling helmets and the impact from a crash at nearly 100 km/h was so great that no helmet may have prevented a fatal injury. After difficult compilation, the Motorola team continued the Tour de France. The rest of the competitors honored Fabio’s team members win the next stage uncontested.
The Societe du Tour de France and the Motorola team placed a memorial stone dedication to Fabio Casartelli on the spot where he crashed.
This is an Article on Fabio Casartelli. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Fabio Casartelli Amateur Career
1991
1992
Professional Career
Teams and Professional results:
1993
1994:
1995:
Death
External Links
Primary Italian fan site
A site maintained by Torelli Imports of Camarillo, California
Photos of the memorial
Articles regarding helmet use and Fabio's crash
