Franco Ongarato (born 29 May 1949) is a former Italian road

cyclist Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

. As an amateur he competed at the 1972 Olympics, and won two stages of the

Tour of Bulgaria The Tour of Bulgaria is an annual international professional bicycle race held in Bulgaria that was first staged on 21 August 1924. It is part of UCI Europe Tour and is category 2.2. The race covers about 1,500 kilometres and lasts two weeks. As ...

in 1970 and one stage of the

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...

in 1972. In 1973–74 he rode professionally and took part in the

1973 Giro d'Italia The 1973 Giro d'Italia was the 56th running of the Giro, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in Verviers, Belgium, on 18 May, with a prologue and concluded with a mass-start stage, on 9 June. A total of 140 riders from fourteen teams ...

, placing third in stage 9.Franco Ongarato
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* 1949 births Living people Italian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Italy Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Padua Cyclists from the Province of Padua {{Italy-cycling-bio-1940s-stub