Franco Vona

Franco Vona (born 20 August 1964) is a former Italian racing cyclist. Vona won three stages of the Giro d'Italia and placed 6th overall in 1992. During the 1992 Tour de France he placed 2nd on the only two high mountain stages of the race and was inside the top 10 until the final ITT which dropped him to 11th. Later in his career he rode on the powerful Maglificio team of Patrick Lefevere and Roger De Vlaeminck and earned TTT stage victories in the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Tour de France.

Major results

 * 1988
 * 1st Stage 16, Giro d'Italia


 * 1989
 * 3rd Overall, Vuelta a Venezuela
 * 1st Stage 5
 * 3rd Stage 19, Giro d'Italia
 * 12th, Züri-Metzgete


 * 1991
 * 1st Stage 6, Tour de Suisse


 * 1992
 * 6th Overall, Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stages 5 & 12
 * 11th Overall, Tour de France
 * 2nd Stages 13 & 14


 * 1993
 * 21st Overall, Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 4 (TTT)


 * 1994
 * 16th, Liège–Bastogne–Liège
 * 37th Overall, Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 3 (TTT)


 * 1995
 * 48th Overall, Tour de France