Alessandro Fantini

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. He died two days later.

Alessandro Fantini

Fantini in 1960
Personal information
Full name	Alessandro Fantini
Born	(1932-01-01)1 January 1932 Fossacesia, Kingdom of Italy
Died	5 May 1961(1961-05-05) (aged 29) Trier, West Germany
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1955	Lygie
1955–1959	Atala
1960–1961	Gazzola
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1955, 1956) Giro d'Italia 7 individual stages (1955, 1956, 1957, 1959)

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

External links

• Alessandro Fantini at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Official Tour de France results for Alessandro Fantini