Salvatore Commesso

Salvatore Commesso is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, born on 28 March 1975 in Torre del Greco, Campania. He turned professional in 1998, riding for Saeco-Cannondale until 2004 and then for Lampre-Caffita after the two teams merged in 2005. He won the Italian national road race championship in 1999 and again in 2002, along with the Trofeo Matteotti and the Criterium d'Abruzzo that year, and took the points competition of the Volta a Portugal in 2001. At the Tour de France he won stage 13 in 1999 and stage 18 in 2000, and finished second on stage 14 of the 2006 edition while riding for Lampre. Le Dico du Tour records six Tour starts for him, with his best overall placing 38th in 1999.