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1956 Volta A Catalunya
The 1956 Volta a Catalunya was the 36th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 6 September to 13 September 1956. The race started in Sabadell and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Aniceto Utset. General classification References 1956 Volta Volta may refer to: Persons * Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt * Giovanni Volta (1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–184 ... 1956 in Spanish road cycling September 1956 sports events in Europe {{Volta a Catalunya-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniceto Utset
Aniceto Utset (17 January 1932 – 11 November 1998) was a Spanish professional cyclist, who was professional between from 1954 to 1961. He retired from cycling at the end of the 1961 season. He was third in the Spanish climbing championship in 1957 and made his debut in the Vuelta a España in 1958. Biography Aniceto Utset was born in Terrassa, Catalonia on January 1, 1932, and died in Terrassa, Catalonia at the age of 66. He finished 1st in the general classification of the 1956 Volta a Catalunya road race, and he also finished 3rd general classification of the 1958 Volta a Catalunya road race. He won the Trofeo Jaumendreu trophy in 1954. Career Aniceto Utset turned professional with the Mobylette team. His cycling career spanned 8 seasons. He competed as a professional with Peña Nicky's in 1954–1955 and mobylette 1956–1961. Utset contested the Vuelta a España from 1958 to 1961 and the 1959 Tour de France. Major results ;1954 : 1st Trofeo Jaumendreu : 3rd Trofeo Borr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Iturat
Vicente Iturat Gil (22 August 1928 in Alcalà de Xivert – 18 August 2017 in Vilanova i la Geltrú) was a Spanish professional road cyclist. A sprinter, Iturat won the Points classification in the 1957 Vuelta a España, as well as four stages of the Vuelta a España throughout his career. He also competed in multiple editions of both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. He also notably won the Euskal Bizikleta stage race in 1953. Major results ;1952 :2nd GP Pascuas ;1953 :1st Overall Euskal Bizikleta :2nd GP Pascuas :2nd Trofeo Masferrer :3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias ::1st Stages 4 & 6 ;1954 :2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ;1955 :1st GP Pascuas :3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya :2nd Overall Euskal Bizikleta :2nd Trofeo Masferrer :5th Overall Vuelta a España ::1st Stage 8 ;1956 :1st Stage 4 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana :1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya :2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya ::1st Stage 5 ;1957 :1st Points classification Vuelta a España :1st Trofeo Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Masip
Francisco Masip (8 August 1926 – 25 September 2015) was a Spanish professional cyclist. He was professional from 1948 until 1960. Biography Masip was born in Santa Coloma de Gramanet on August 8, 1926, and in Catalonia. He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet for his entire life. Career He was the first Spanish cyclist to participate in five consecutive Tour de France editions, between 1951 and 1955. His cycling career spanned 16 seasons, from 1945 to 1960, in which he obtained a total of 19 victories. Major results ;1945 : 3rd Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1946 : 5th Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1948 : 1st Trofeo Jaumendreu : 8th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana ;1949 : 3rd National Climbing Championships ;1950 : 1st Trofeo Jaumendreu : 1st Trofeo Masferrer : 2nd Overall GP Catalunya : 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1951 : 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1952 : 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1953 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Euskal Bizik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Volta A Catalunya
The 1955 Volta a Catalunya was the 35th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 3 September to 11 September 1955. The race started in Sabadell and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by José Gómez del Moral. General classification References 1955 Volta Volta may refer to: Persons * Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt * Giovanni Volta (1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–184 ... 1955 in Spanish road cycling September 1955 sports events in Europe {{Volta a Catalunya-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Volta A Catalunya
The 1957 Volta a Catalunya was the 37th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 1 September to 8 September 1957. The race started in Montjuïc and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Jesús Loroño. General classification References 1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ... Volta 1957 in Spanish road cycling September 1957 sports events in Europe {{Volta a Catalunya-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta A Catalunya
The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had several different calendar dates, running before in September, June and May. Since 2010 it has been on the calendar in late March as part of the UCI World Tour. Raced over seven days, it covers the autonomous community of Catalonia in Northeast Spain and contains one or more stages in the mountain region of the Pyrenees. The race traditionally finishes with a stage in Barcelona, Catalonia's capital, on a circuit with the famous Montjuïc climb and park. First held in 1911, the Volta a Catalunya is the fourth-oldest still-existing cycling stage race in the world. Only the Tour de France (1903), the Tour of Belgium (1908) and the Giro d'Italia (1909) are older. It was the second cycling event organized o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabadell
Sabadell () is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental and its joint capital (co-capital), on the River Ripoll, north of Barcelona. Sabadell is located above sea level. Sabadell pioneered the Industrial Revolution in Catalonia with its textile mills, together with its archrival Terrassa. Thus, in the mid-19th century, it became the most important wool city in Spain, being nicknamed the "Catalan Manchester#Industrial Revolution, Manchester". Today many mills from that period can still be seen, with most of them having been refurbished as residential buildings or other services. Nowadays Sabadell is basically a commercial and industrial city; there are no significant agricultural activities. Sabadell is an important communications point. Two motorways run beside the city: the C-58 (from Barcelona to Manresa) and the Autopista AP-7, AP-7 (from France and Girona to Tarragona, Valencia, Spain, Valencia, and Andalusia), and some roads l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Poblet
Miguel Poblet Orriols (18 March 1928 – 6 April 2013) was a Spanish professional cyclist, who had over 200 professional victories from 1944 to 1962. He was the first Spanish rider to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, and in 1956 he became the first of only three riders to win stages in the three Grand Tours in the same year. (The other two are Pierino Baffi and Alessandro Petacchi.) He won the Milan–San Remo classic race on two occasions and took 26 stage wins in the three Grand Tours. His twenty-stage wins in the Giro d'Italia makes him the third most successful foreign rider in the "Giro" behind Eddy Merckx (25) and Roger De Vlaeminck (22). Poblet was of short stature who had great power, he was the first Spanish rider to be a specialist in one day races in an age when Spain only produced climbers. He had a lightning fast sprint, but could also climb well, taking the Spanish Mountain championships on three occasions and the mountainous Volta a Catalunya twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gelabert
Antonio Gelabert Amengual (7 September 1921 in Santa Maria del Camí – 13 December 1956 in Palma de Mallorca) was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He became Spanish national champion in 1950 and 1955. Major results ;1949 :Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1950 : Spanish National Road Race Championship :Volta a Catalunya :Vuelta a España: ::Winner stages 5 and 18 ;1952 :Tour de France: ::10th place overall classification :Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama :GP Pascuas :Vuelta a Castilla ;1953 :Vuelta a Asturias ;1955 : Spanish National Road Race Championship :Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...: ::Winner stage 3 External links *Official Tour de France results for Antonio Gelabert Spanish male cyclists 1921 births 1956 deaths Spanish Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Crespo Hita
Joan Crespo Hita (7 March 1927 – 9 April 2014) was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1951 and 1959. Biography Joan Crespo was born in Barcelona, Catalonia on March 7, 1927 and died in Barcelona at the age of 87. Crespo turned professional in 1951 with the Spanish team P.C. Nicky's. His main victory was the Trofeo Masferrer in 1958. He finished 39th in the general classification of the 1957 Vuelta a España. Crespo's last win was the GP de Martorell in 1959. Crespo retired from cycling at the end of the 1959 season. His father, Antonio Crespo Sanjuán, was one of the pioneers in the sport in Catalonia. Major results ;1951 : 2nd Trofeo Jaumendreu ;1952 : 1st Gran Premio Cataluña ;1956 : 3rd GP de Martorell ;1957 : 2nd Trofeo Masferrer ;1958 : 1st Trofeo Masferrer ;1959 : 1st GP de Martorell Vuelta a España results * 1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Serena
Walter Serena (3 April 1928 – 19 August 2011) was an Italian cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1952 to 1957. He most notably won the 1954 Volta a Catalunya. He also competed in five editions of the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1953 : 6th Züri-Metzgete : 9th Giro dell'Appennino ;1954 : 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya ::1st Stage 8 (ITT) : 6th Coppa Sabatini : 6th Giro del Veneto : 7th Giro di Campania : 8th Giro di Lombardia : 10th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1955 : 3rd Giro del Veneto : 8th Overall Volta a Catalunya : 9th Giro di Lombardia ;1956 : 1st Stage 2b ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 3rd Overall Giro di Sicilia Giro di Sicilia (English: Tour of Sicily) is a men's multi-stage bicycle race held on Sicily, Italy. The race was first held in 1907 and was won by Carlo Galetti. The race disappeared from the calendar after the 1977 edition won by Giuseppe Saron ... : 8th Overall Volta a Catalunya References External links * 1928 births 2011 deaths Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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