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1950 Giro D'Italia
The 1950 Giro d'Italia was the 33rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started in Milan on 24 May with a individual time trial and concluded in Salsomaggiore Terme with a relatively flat mass-start stage on 13 June. Fifteen teams entered the race, which was won by Swiss Hugo Koblet of the Guerra team. Second and third respectively were Italians Gino Bartali and Alfredo Martini. Teams It was announced in January 1950 that there would not be more than 100 riders starting the race. However, fifteen teams of seven were granted entry for the race. This meant the starting peloton consisted of 105 cyclists, the same amount that started the 1949 edition. Italians comprised the majority of the entrants (88), while the remaining 17 foreign riders were from France (9), Switzerland (5), Belgium (2), and Luxembourg (1). Of the starting riders, 75 completed the course. The teams entering the race were: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Koblet
Hugo Koblet (; 21 March 1925 – 6 November 1964) was a Switzerland, Swiss champion cycle sport, cyclist. He won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia as well as competing in six-day and pursuit races on the track. He won 70 races as a professional. He died in a car accident amid speculation that he had committed suicide. Origins Hugo Koblet was the son of Adolf and Héléna Koblet (pronounced Kob-lettLES GRANDS DUELS DU TOUR (3) Koblet-Kubler : le seigneur et le pirate ''Le Monde''. 2 July 2003.), bakers in Zürich. He lived with his mother, a widow, and with an elder brother. His brother baked bread and cakes and Hugo was restricted to sweeping the floor and making deliveries by bicycle.Sporting Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorenzo Magni
Fiorenzo Magni (; 7 December 1920 – 19 October 2012) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. Biography Magni was born to Giuseppe Magni and Giulia Caciolli, and had an elder sister Fiorenza. Bulbarelli, pp. 14–15 He started competing in cycling in 1936, in secret from parents. His early successes became known to locals, including his parents, they allowed him to continue. After the death of his father in December 1937, Magni left school to take over his father's business and provide incomes for the family, yet he continued his cycling workouts. Shortly before the war in Italy on 10 June 1940, Magni was recruited to serve as a gunner at the 19th Regiment of Florence, although he had requested to become a bersagliere, while being licensed to dispute a race, its battalion was embarked for Albania, but the ship, where he should have been on board, also sank without leaving survivors. He moved to the Olympic Battalion of Rome where he remained until 1943 when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Kübler
Ferdinand Kübler (; 24 July 1919 – 29 December 2016) was a Swiss cyclist with 71 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France and the 1951 World Road Race Championship. Biography Kübler was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was multiple Swiss national champion and a three time winner of the Tour de Suisse. Kübler's most successful years in international racing were 1950–1952, when the classics had resumed after the Second World War. He won the La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, both in 1951 and 1952, in a time where these races were still contested in the same weekend. He was also World Road Race Champion in 1951, having placed second in 1949 and third in 1950. Kübler rode the Giro d'Italia from 1950–1952, placing fourth once, and third twice. Kübler abandoned the 1947 and 1949 Tours de France, despite an early stage win in each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Schär
Fritz Schär (13 March 1926 in Kaltenbach – 29 September 1997 in Frauenfeld) was a Swiss cyclist who in 1953 won the first points classification ever in the Tour de France. He also finished third in the general classification in the 1954 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1953. Major results ;1948 : 3rd Giro di Lombardia ;1949 : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1950 : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia ;1951 : 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie : 4th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1952 : 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia : 5th Overall Tour de Romandie : 7th Overall Tour de Suisse :: 1st Stage 2 ;1953 : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse :: 1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 6th Overall Tour de France :: 1st Points classification :: 1st Stages 1 & 2 ;1954 : 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 3rd Overall Tour de France : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 9th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Tour De France
The 1947 Tour de France was the 34th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 25 June to 20 July. The total race distance was 21 stages over . It was the first Tour since 1939, having been cancelled during World War II, although some Tour de France-like races had been held during World War II. Because the previous races had been canceled, there was no real favourite for the final victory. When René Vietto, the runner-up of 1939, captured the yellow jersey after his victory on the second stage, many thought he could remain first until the last day. Vietto, a climber, was less optimistic and lost his first place to Italian Pierre Brambilla after the time trial in stage 19. With only two stages to go, many now believed that Brambilla would win the race. On the last stage, there was an unexpected attack, and little-known French cyclist Jean Robic captured the lead. Robic had won the Tour de France without ever wearing the yellow jersey during the race, the first time that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Bresci
Giulio Bresci (born 19 November 1921 – 8 August 1998) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. Major results ;1946 :6th Giro d'Italia ;1947 :2nd Giro del Lazio :2nd Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 4 :3rd Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 18 ;1948 :1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato :1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie :2nd Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 2 :7th Giro d'Italia ;1949 :7th Giro d'Italia ;1951 :2nd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato The Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Prato, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicy ... References Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners 1998 deaths 1921 births People from Prato Sportspeople from the Province of Prato Cyclists from Tuscany Tour de Suisse stage winners {{Italy-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Robic
Jean Robic (; 10 June 1921 – 6 October 1980)L'Équipe, 9 July 2003 was a French road racing cyclist, who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature (1.61m, 60 kg) and appearance was encapsulated in his nickname ''Biquet'' ''(Kid goat)''. For faster, gravity-assisted descents, he collected drinking bottles ballasted with lead or mercury at the summits of mountain climbs and " cols". After fracturing his skull in 1944 he always wore a trademark leather crash helmet. Origins Robic has always been described as a Breton but he was born in the Ardennes region of France, where his father had found work as a carpenter."Club cyclo du Ninian à Plémet" his father having lived in Brittany before he moved. His father was a racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Tour Of Flanders
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The 34th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 2 April 1950. Italian Fiorenzo Magni won the race with a two-minute lead over Briek Schotte. Frenchman Louis Caput was third at more than nine minutes. It was Magni's second consecutive victory in the Tour of Flanders.Vanwalleghem, Rik (1991), De Ronde van Vlaanderen, Pinguin, Belgium, , p 100 21 of 220 riders finished. Route The race started in Ghent and finished in Wetteren – totaling 275 km. The course featured five categorized climbs: Results References Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1950 La Flèche Wallonne was the 14th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 1 May 1950. The race started in Charleroi and finished in Liège. The race was won by Fausto Coppi. General classification References 1950 in road cycling 1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ... 1950 in Belgian sport 1950 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Paris–Roubaix
The 1950 Paris–Roubaix was the 48th edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 9 April 1950 and stretched from Paris to the finish at Roubaix Velodrome. The winner was Fausto Coppi Angelo Fausto Coppi (; 15 September 1919 – 2 January 1960) was an Italian cyclist, the dominant international cyclist of the years after the World War II, Second World War. His successes earned him the title ''Il Campionissimo'' ("Champio ... from Italy. Results References 1950 Paris-Roubaix 1950 in road cycling 1950 in French sport 1950 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo April 1950 sports events in Europe {{Paris–Roubaix-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Milan–San Remo
The 1950 Milan–San Remo was the 41st edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 18 March 1950. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Gino Bartali of the Bartali–Gardiol team. General classification References 1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ... 1950 in road cycling 1950 in Italian sport Milan-San Remo March 1950 sports events in Europe {{Milan–San Remo-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Cycle Races
The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar. Some of these events date back to the 19th century. They are normally held at roughly the same time each year. The five most revered races are often described as the cycling monuments. For the 2005 to 2007 seasons, some classics formed part of the UCI ProTour run by the Union Cycliste Internationale. This event series also included various stage races including the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, Paris–Nice, and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. The UCI ProTour replaced the UCI Road World Cup series (1989–2004) which contained only one-day races. Many of the classics, and all the Grand Tours, were not part of the UCI ProTour for the 2008 season because of disputes between the UCI and the ASO, which organizes the Tour de France and several other major races. Since 2009, many classic cycle races are part of the UCI World Tour. Probl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
