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1951 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, men's road race at the 1951 UCI Road World Championships was the 18th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 2 September 1951 in Varese, Italy. The race was won by Ferdinand Kübler of Switzerland. Final classification References 1951 UCI Road World Championships, Men's Road Race UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race {{UCIMen-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Bevilacqua
Antonio Bevilacqua (22 October 1918 – 29 March 1972) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1951 Paris–Roubaix. Major results ;1940 – Lygie ;1941 – Dop, Ferroviario Venezia : 1st, GP di Duca degli Abruzzi : 1st, GP Maresciello dell Aria : 1st, Coppa del Littirio ;1942 – Bianchi : 2nd, Milan–San Remo : 7th, Giro di Lombardia ;1943 – Viscontea : Pursuit Champion ;1944 – VC Bassano ;1946 – Wilier Triestina : 17th, Giro d'Italia :: Winner Stages 2 & 4 ;1947 – Lygie : 1st, Stage 13, Giro d'Italia : World Pursuit Championship ;1948 – Atala : 1st, Stage 7, Giro d'Italia : World Pursuit Championship : 33rd, Tour de France ;1949 – Atala : Pursuit Champion : 40th, Giro d'Italia :: Winner Stage 18 ;1950 – Wilier Triestina : World Pursuit Champion : Road Race Champion : Pursuit Champion : 1st, Tre Valli Varesine : 1st, Milano-Vicenza : 1st, Trofeo Baracchi (with Fiorenzo Magni) : 2nd, Giro di Lombardia : 29th, Giro d'Italia ;195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varese
Varese ( , ; or ; ; ; archaic ) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 was 80,559. It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or exurban part of the city is called ''Varesotto''. Geography The city of Varese lies at the foot of Sacro Monte di Varese, part of the Campo dei Fiori di Varese, Campo dei Fiori mountain range, that hosts an astronomical observatory, as well as the Prealpino Geophysical Centre. The village which is in the middle of the mountain is called Santa Maria del Monte because of the medieval sanctuary, which is reached through the avenue of the chapels of the Sacred Mountain. Varese is situated on seven hills: the San Pedrino Hill, the Giubiano Hill, the Campigli Hill, the Sant'Albino Hill, the Biumo Superiore Hill, Colle di Montalbano (Villa Mirabello) and the Hill of Miogni. The city also looks over Lake Varese. Climate Varese's winters are not signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Bartali
Gino Bartali, (; 18 July 1914 – 5 May 2000), nicknamed Gino the Pious and (in Italy) Ginettaccio, was a champion road cyclist. He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937, and the Tour de France in 1938. After the war, he added one more victory in each event: the Giro d'Italia in 1946 and the Tour de France in 1948. His second and last Tour de France victory in 1948 gave him the largest gap between victories in the race.Eurosport, Tour De France, 2008, Legends, Gino Bartali Eurosport.fr (4 July 2008). Retrieved on 6 August 2014. In September 2013, 13 years after his death, Bartali was recognised as a "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem for his e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Minardi
Giuseppe Minardi (18 March 1928 – 21 January 2019) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won the 1952 edition of the . Major results ;1949 : 1st ;1950 : 4th : 8th |
Wout Wagtmans
Wouter "Wout" Wagtmans (10 November 1929 – 15 August 1994) was a Dutch road bicycle racer. Together with Wim van Est he belonged to the generation that brought great popularity to cycling in the Netherlands in the 1950s. In 1947, Wagtmans started as amateur, and two years later he became Dutch champion. In 1950 he was forced to be a professional cyclist, because he was said to take money after a victory. In his first day as a professional cyclist, he entered the Dutch professional championship, and only Gerrit Schulte could keep ahead of him. After that, he had a glorious career. He entered the Tour de France eight times, and wore the yellow jersey in 1954, 1955 and 1956. He won four stages: in 1953 in Gap he beat Gino Bartali in the final sprint, and ended fifth in the overall standings. Two years later he was the third Dutch winner in Bordeaux. He also won three stages in the Giro d'Italia and several one-day races. He was also successful as a track rider and, together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Voorting
Gerardus "Gerrit" Petrus Voorting (18 January 1923 – 30 January 2015) was a Dutch road cyclist who was active between 1947 and 1960. As an amateur he won the silver medal in the individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In his professional career Voorting won two Tour de France stages and wore the yellow jersey for 4 days. Voorting died on 30 January 2015 in his home in Heemskerk at the age of 92, rvmn.nl (4 February 2015) within a week of two other members of the Dutch men's team pursuit squad, Henk Faanhof and Joop Harmans. He was the elder brother of Olympic cyclist [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef De Feyter
Jozef ( Creole, Dutch, Breton, and Slovak) or Józef (Polish) are variants of the masculine given name Joseph in several European languages. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list, see and . * Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s * Józef Bem (1794–1850), Polish general, Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary * Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), Polish Catholic archbishop and saint * Józef Brandt (1841–1915), Polish painter * Józef Ćwierczakiewicz (1822–1869), Polish journalist * Jozef M.L.T. Cals (1914–1971), prime minister of the Netherlands * Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849–1914), Polish painter * Jozef Chovanec (born 1960), footballer * Jozef De Kesel (born 1947), Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Jozef De Veuster (1840–1889), Belgian missionary better known as Father Damien * Jozef Dobrotka (born 1952), Slovak handball player * Józef Elsner (1769–1854), Silesian compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Swiss Alps, Alps and the Jura Mountains, Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's Demographics of Switzerland, 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts List of cities in Switzerland, its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh language, Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the ''World Cycling Champion'' (or ''World Road Cycling Champion'') and earns the right to wear the ''Rainbow Jersey'' for a full year in road race or stage events. The event is a single 'mass start' road race with the winner being the first across the line at the completion of the full race distance. The road race is contested by riders organized by national cycling teams as opposed to commercially sponsored or ''trade teams'', which is the standard in professional cycling. History The first professional World Cycling Championship took place in 1927 at the Nürburgring in Germany and was won by Alfredo Binda, of Italy. In recent years, the race is held towards the end of the European season, usually following the Vuelta a España. The elite men's race is usually won by riders on the UCI World Tour or its predecessors. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Kubler
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, venture." The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic or . It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with Habsburg rule over Spain. Variants of the name include , , , and in Spanish, in Catalan, and and in Portuguese. The French forms are , '' Fernand'', and , and it is '' Ferdinando'' and ''Fernando'' in Italian. In Hungarian both and are used equally. The Dutch forms are and ''Ferry''. There are numerous short forms in many languages, such as the Finnish . There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian form, . Royalty Aragón/León/Castile/Spain *Ferdinand I of Aragon (1380–1416) the Just, King in 1412 * Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
The men's road race at the 1952 UCI Road World Championships was the 19th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 24 August 1952 in Luxembourg. The race was won by Heinz Müller of West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi .... Final classification References Men's Road Race UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race {{UCIMen-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
