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Carlo Tonon

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Carlo Tonon
Personal information
Full nameCarlo Tonon
Born(1955-03-25)25 March 1955
San Vendemiano, Italy
Died17 June 1996(1996-06-17) (aged 41)
Stabiuzzo, Italy
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1982–1983Inoxpran
1984Carrera Inoxpran

Carlo Tonon (25 March 1955, in San Vendemiano – 17 June 1996, in Stabiuzzo) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.

He was a professional rider from 1982 through 1984 and twice started the Tour de France.

1984 Tour de France

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Tonon finished his first Tour de France for Carrera, where he rode alongside Guido Bontempi, in 1982 as 116th.[1] He was again selected for the 1984 Tour de France where in the 19th stage he collided with a tourist while descending the Col de Joux-Plane. He was transferred to Annecy hospital with a fractured skull.[2] He remained in a coma for two months and was left with a permanent disability which contributed to him taking his own life in 1996, aged 41.

Death and legacy

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In 1996 Tonon committed suicide, hanging himself in his barn, having never totally recovered from his fall.[3]

From 2004, the Memorial Carlo Tonon e Denis Zanette is staged, in memory of Tonon and Denis Zanette, another Italian cyclist who died in 2003.

Palmarès

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1982
Tour de France:

116th

1983
Giro d'Italia:

134th

References

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