Giancarlo Astrua (11 August 1927 – 29 July 2010)Addio a Giancarlo Astrua
(Italian). Gazzetta.it. 30 July 2010 was an Italian professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

. He was born in

Graglia Graglia ( pms, Graja) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about southwest of Biella Biella (; pms, Biela; la, Bugella) is a city and ''comune'' in the ...

Major results

;1949 : Giro d'Italia: ::5th place overall classification ;1950 : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 15 ;1951 : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 12 ;1952 : Giro d'Italia: ::7th place overall classification :

Trofeo Baracchi The Trofeo Baracchi was a major Italian cycling race that ran for 50 years. It was created by Mino Baracchi, in memory of his father Angelo who was a great cycle racing fan. Originally (from 1941) an amateur individual time trial, from 1944 it wa ...

(with

Nino Defilippis Nino Defilippis (21 March 1932, in Turin – 13 July 2010, in Turin) was an Italian road bicycle racer who won the Giro di Lombardia in 1958, as well as nine stages at the Giro d'Italia, seven stages at the Tour de France and two stages at the ...

) ;1953 :

Giro della Romagna The Giro della Romagna was a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Italian region of Romagna. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was discontinued in 2011, and in 2013, it merged with the Me ...

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

: ::3rd place overall classification ;1954 :GP Industria in Belmonte-Piceno : Giro d'Italia: ::5th place overall classification ;1955 : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 5 :

: ::7th place overall classification ;1956 :

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 12

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* 1927 births 2010 deaths People from Graglia Italian Tour de France stage winners Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Italian Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists from Piedmont Sportspeople from the Province of Biella 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-cycling-bio-1920s-stub