Sante Gaiardoni (born 29 June 1939) is a retired Italian cyclist. He won two gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games in

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, in the 1000 m time trial and the 1000 m sprint. Between 1958 and 1970 he won two gold, four silver and two bronze medals in sprint events at the

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Biography

After retirement in 1971 he ran a bicycle shop in

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, Milan. In the 2000s he was active in politics and took part in the 2006 Italian municipal elections. In 2010, together with journalist Francesco Lodi, he published a book ''Quando la Rabbia si trasforma in Vittoria'' ("When the anger turns into victory") describing his early life until 1960.

Awards

On 7 May 2015, in the presence of the President of Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI),

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, was inaugurated in the

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of the

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, along ''Viale delle Olimpiadi'', the

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, consisting of 100 tiles that chronologically report names of the most representative athletes in the history of Italian sport. On each tile there is the name of the sportsman, the sport in which he distinguished himself and the symbol of CONI. One of the tiles is dedicated to Sante Gaiardoni.

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Biography

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