The verdict is in
Pro cyclist killed: 4 years in prison for truck driver
A truck driver from Germany has been sentenced to four years in prison in Italy for the accidental death of former Italian racing cyclist Davide Rebellin. The regional court in the northern Italian city of Vicenza found the 64-year-old guilty of running over the former professional cyclist and committing a hit-and-run. The public prosecutor's office had demanded five years in prison.
Rebellin was hit and fatally injured by a semi-trailer truck during a training lap near the northern Italian town of Montebello Vicentino on November 30, 2022. The 51-year-old had ended his professional career for good shortly beforehand.
The truck driver was charged with road traffic homicide - a criminal offense in Italy - and failure to render assistance. After the collision, he had left the scene of the accident and returned to Germany. The man, who was wanted on a European arrest warrant, handed himself in to the authorities seven months later and was detained in Vicenza prison. He is said to have suffered a stroke in spring 2024.
Specialist for one-day races
Rebellin was a specialist in one-day races and won the Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège classics within a week in 2004. In 1996, he also won a stage of the Giro d'Italia. He later made negative headlines when he was stripped of his 2008 Olympic silver medal in Beijing for doping.
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