Alessandro Fantini (Fossacesia, 1 January 1932 — Trier, West-Germany, 5 May 1961) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. After winning the fifth stage, Fantini died after a crash during a mass sprint at the end of the sixth stage of the 1961 Tour of Germany. He was immediately admitted to a hospital, but surgery was impossible due to the large amount of amphetamines in his system.Jean-Pierre de Mondenard, Dictionnaire du dopage, p. 679 He died two days later.
Major results Source:
1955 Tour de France – 1st stage: 12 Giro d'Italia – 1st stages: 4 & 7 Milano–Torino – 6th Giro del Ticino – 7th
1956
Tour de France – 1st stage: 7 Giro d'Italia – overall: 6th place, 1st stage: 2 & 4 Tour de Romandie – place overall: 8th
1957
Giro d'Italia – 1st stage: 5 & 17 Roma–Napoli–Roma – 1st stage: 12 Coppa Bernocchi – 6th
1958 Gran Piemonte – 2nd Giro dell'Emilia – 8th Giro della Romagna – 8th
1959 Giro d'Italia – 1st stage: 16 Giro dell'Emilia – 2nd Giro di Lombardia – 4th Tre Valli Varesine – 4th Trofeo Matteotti – 4th Gran Piemonte – 5th
1960 Milano–Vignola – 1st Deutschland Tour – 1st stage: 1 & 5 Championship of Zurich – 4th Giro di Campania – 8th
1961 Deutschland Tour – 1st stage: 4 Milano–Torino – 3rd Tour des Quatre-Cantons – 4th
See also
List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
References
External links
Official Tour de France results for Alessandro Fantini