Giovanni Valetti
Giovanni Valetti (22 September 1913 – 28 May 1998) was an Italian professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his two overall wins in the 1938 Giro d'Italia, 1938 and 1939 Giro d'Italia, 1939 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1938 Tour de Suisse. Major results ;1933 : 1st Overall Giro del Lazio ::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall Gran Piemonte ;1936 : 5th Overall 1936 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ;1937 : 2nd Overall 1937 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Giro di Toscana ;1938 : 1st Overall 1938 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia, Mountains classification ::1st Stages 4a, 7a (individual time trial, ITT) & 15 : 1st Overall 1938 Tour de Suisse, Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 5th Grand Prix des Nations ;1939 : 1st Overall 1939 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 6b (individual time trial, ITT), 13 (individual time trial, ITT) & 16 : 2nd Giro della Provincia Milano ;1940 : ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vinovo
Vinovo ( pms, Vineuv) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin. Vinovo is home to the training ground of Serie A football team Juventus. The Della Rovere Castle hosts the campus of St. John International University, a private American University. History The city has enjoyed a relatively long history, with roots going back to ancient times. In fact, remains dating from the fifth century AD have been found in this area, and the oldest historical documents date back to 1040. The notarized document certified that the Marquis Romagnano donated to the Abbey of San Silano Romagnano some land sites in the territory of Vinovo. In this document, the territory is referred to as Vicus Novus, a name that remained in the Middle Ages to designate the group of buildings and land that various landowners owned. In 1268, a bill of sale sees the appearance in local history, the Della Rovere family, who becam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giro Di Toscana
The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will return in September 2016 as a three-race challenge (similar to the Trittico Lombardo or Vuelta a Mallorca), consisting in three one-day races held consecutively in Tuscany. Each race will award points to the best placed riders, and the rider who score most points will win the overall classification of Giro della Toscana. This new edition will be named ''Giro della Toscana - Memorial Alfredo Martini'', in memory of Alfredo Martini, former cyclist and coach of the Italy national cycling team. Winners References External linksOfficial site See also * Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini Giro or GIRO may refer to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1939 Tour De France
The 1939 Tour de France was the 33rd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 10 to 30 July. The total distance was . Taking place on the eve of World War II, there was already much animosity in Europe. Italy, Germany and Spain all declined to send teams to the race, so the 1938 Italian champion Gino Bartali would not be defending his title. To fill out the ranks, Belgium sent two teams, and France had five teams. This would be the final Tour for eight years, until 1947. Between the second and the seventh stage, the last rider in the general classification was eliminated. The race was won by Belgian Sylvère Maes who also won the mountains classification. Innovations and changes For the first time, a mountain time trial was scheduled: stage 16b. A rule was added to make it more difficult to finish the race: from the second stage to the seventh stage, the last rider in the classification was to be removed from the race. The nutrition of the cyclists became more profe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1938 Tour De France
The 1938 Tour de France was the 32nd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 5 to 31 July. It was composed of 21 stages over .The race was won by Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, who also won the mountains classification. Innovations and changes The bonification system was reduced compared to 1937: the winner of a stage now only received one minute bonification time, added by the margin to the second arriving cyclist, with a maximum of 75 seconds. The cyclists who reached a mountain top that counted towards the mountains classification first, now received only one minute bonification time. The team trial stages, where the teams departed 15 minutes separately, were removed from the race. They would later return in the 1954 Tour de France, in a different form. Instead, the 1938 Tour de France featured two individual time trials. In previous years, some cyclists were in teams and other rode individually. In 1937, there had been problems with individual cyclists being accuse ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1937 Tour De France
The 1937 Tour de France was the 31st edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 25 July. It consisted of 20 stages with a total length of . Charles Holland and Bill Burl became the first British cyclists to ride the Tour. Burl lasted only two stages, but Holland rode well until he was eliminated on stage 14c after mechanical problems. The British Empire was also represented by the only non-European in the Tour: Canadian Pierre Gachon, who never completed the first stage. The complete Belgian team (including 1936 and 1939 winner Sylvère Maes) withdraw from the race because of "French chauvinism". Complaints from the Belgian team included of French spectators throwing stones at the Belgian team, closing train crossings, and throwing pepper in the eyes, and being punished unreasonable strictly (adding extra time in the standing) while French riders were hardly punished at all while being helped. The race was won by French cyclist Roger Lapébie. Innovations and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1936 Tour De France
The 1936 Tour de France was the 30th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 7 July to 2 August. It was composed of 21 stages with a total length of . Because of health problems, Henri Desgrange stopped as Tour director, and was succeeded by Jacques Goddet. The race was won by Belgian cyclist Sylvère Maes. In the early stages, he battled with French Maurice Archambaud, until Archambaud lost many minutes on the eighth stage. Maes was then able to create a large margin with his new closest competitor Magne and teammate Vervaecke. The team classification was won by the Belgian team, and Spanish cyclist Julián Berrendero won the mountains classification. There was also a one-time classification, based on points, that was won by Sylvère Maes. Innovations and changes For the first time, a stage was divided into three parts. The race director at the start of the race was still Henri Desgrange, who had been race director since the first Tour de France in 1903. Desgrange, w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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General Classification In The Tour De France
The general classification is the most important classification, the one by which the winner of the Tour de France is determined. Since 1919, the leader of the general classification wears the yellow jersey (french: maillot jaune ). History The winner of the first Tour de France wore a green armband, not a yellow jersey. After the second Tour de France, the rules were changed, and the general classification was no longer calculated by time, but by points. This points system was kept until 1912, after which it changed back into the time classification. At that time, the leader still did not wear a yellow jersey. There is doubt over when the yellow jersey began. The Belgian rider Philippe Thys, who won the Tour in 1913, 1914 and 1920, recalled in the Belgian magazine ''Champions et Vedettes'' when he was 67 that he was awarded a yellow jersey in 1913 when the organiser, Henri Desgrange, asked him to wear a coloured jersey. Thys declined, saying making himself more visible in y ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1940 Giro D'Italia
The 1940 Giro d'Italia was the 28th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''. The race began on 17 May 1940 in Milan with a stage that stretched to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 9 June 1940 after a stage and a total distance covered of . The race was won by Fausto Coppi (at his first participation) of the Legnano team, with fellow Italians Enrico Mollo and Giordano Cottur coming in second and third respectively. Coppi, who was 20 years old at the time, is the youngest winner of the Giro. Participants Of the 91 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 17 May 1940, 47 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 9 June May. Riders were allowed to ride as a member of a team or group; 41 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 50 competed as a part of a group. The eight teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Legnano, Gloria, Olympia, Lygie, Gerbi. Each team started with either six or seven riders ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giro Del Veneto
The Giro del Veneto is a classic cycle races, semi classic European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in the region of Veneto, Italy. The race is a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2012 the race merged with another Italian classic, Coppa Placci, after some financial problems, and was held under the name "Giro Del Veneto - Coppa Placci". It was to be the last edition for 9 years. In 2021, after a hiatus of 9 years, the race returned under its original name "Giro del Veneto". Winners Wins per country References External linksOfficial site {{DEFAULTSORT:Giro Del Veneto UCI Europe Tour races Cycle races in Italy Classic cycle races Recurring sporting events established in 1909 1909 establishments in Italy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giro Della Provincia Milano
Giro or GIRO may refer to: Banking and Investments * Giro (banking), a direct payment from one bank account to another instigated by the payer * Girobank, a state owned and later privatised financial institution in the UK * GiroBank, a Danish bank (1991–1995) which through several mergers is now part of Danske Bank * name of a bank account with the Dutch Postgiro, later Postbank, now ING People * Ivelin Giro, Cuban American actress * Jaume Giró (born 1964), Catalan corporate executive * Giro (singer) stage name of salsa singer Jorge López * Anna Girò, 18th-century Italian contralto * Stefan Giro, Australian footballer Places * Giro, Indiana, a small town in the United States * Giro District, Afghanistan Other uses * Girò, an Italian wine grape * Giró blanc, a Spanish wine grape * Giro d'Italia, a bicycling Grand Tour in Italy * Giro d'Italia Femminile, a bicycling Grand Tour in Italy - Women's * Giro d'Italia automobilistico, automobile race in Italy * Giro (company ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grand Prix Des Nations
The Grand Prix des Nations was an individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-b ... (against the clock) for both professional and amateur racing cycle sport, cyclists. Held annually in Cannes, France, it was instituted in 1932 and often regarded as the unofficial time trial championship of the world and as a Classic cycle races, Classic cycle race. The race was the idea of a Parisian newspaper editor called Gaston Bénac. The beret-wearing sports editor was looking for a race to make a name for ''Paris-Soir'', the biggest French evening paper before the war. He and his colleague Albert Baker d'Isy had been inspired by the 1931 UCI Road World Championships, world road race championship in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1931. That, unusually, had been run as a time tri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |