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Tonon finished his first Tour de France for Carrera, where he rode alongside Guido Bontempi, in 1982 as 116th.
Tonon finished his first Tour de France for Carrera, where he rode alongside Guido Bontempi, in 1982 as 116th.
He was a professional rider from 1982 through 1984 and twice started the Tour de France. He was again selected for the where in the 19th stage he collided with a tourist while descending the Colonel de Joux-Plane. He was transferred to Annecy hospital with a fractured skull where he would stay in a coma for a couple of months and was eventually handicapped for life.
In 1996 Tonon committed suicide, hanging himself in his barn.
He never totally recovered from his fall
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.