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1974 Milan–San Remo
The 1974 Milan–San Remo was the 65th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 18 March 1974. The race started in Milan and finished in Sanremo, San Remo. The race was won by Felice Gimondi of the Bianchi (cycling team), Bianchi team. General classification References Milan–San Remo, 1974 1974 in road cycling 1974 in Italian sport 1974 Super Prestige Pernod {{Milan–San Remo-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Gimondi
Felice Gimondi (; 29 September 1942 – 16 August 2019) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. With his 1968 Vuelta a España, 1968 victory at the Vuelta a España, only three years after becoming a professional cyclist, Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix", was the second cyclist (after Jacques Anquetil) to win all three ''Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours'' of road cycling: Tour de France (1965, his first year as a pro), Giro d'Italia (1967, 1969 and 1976), and Vuelta a España (1968). He is one of only Grand Tour (cycling)#Winners of all three Grand Tours, seven cyclists to have done so. Gimondi also won three of the five Cycling monuments, winning the Giro di Lombardia twice, and finished on the podium of a grand tour twelve times. He accomplished all of these major victories despite his career coinciding with that of Eddy Merckx. Biography Gimondi was born on 29 September 1942 in Sedrina in the Province of Bergamo. He was the son of a transport manager and a post mistres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Paolini
Enrico Paolini (26 March 1945 – 6 May 2025) was an Italian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ..., who competed in the 1970s. He died on 6 May 2025, at the age of 80. Grand Tour results timeline References External links * 1945 births 2025 deaths Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from Marche Sportspeople from Pesaro 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-cycling-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 In Road Cycling
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as ''The Rumble in the Jungle'', a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Huélamo
Jaime Huélamo (17 November 1948 – 31 January 2014) was a road racing cyclist from Spain, who was a professional rider from 1973 to 1975. He was born in Cuenca, Spain. He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he finished third in the men's individual road race but was disqualified and stripped of the bronze medal after failing a drug test. By Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans. Scarecrow Press. 2011. See also * * |
Freddy Maertens
Freddy Maertens (born 13 February 1952) is a Belgian people, Belgian former professional racing cyclist who was twice UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, world road race champion. His career coincided with the best years of another Belgian rider, Eddy Merckx, and supporters and reporters were split over who was better.Vanwalleghem, Rik; Freddy Maertens: een leven in wit en zwart, 2012 () Maertens' career swung between winning more than 50 races in a season to winning almost none and then back again. His life has been marked by debt and alcoholism. It took him more than two decades to pay a tax debt. At one point early in his career, between the 1976 Tour de France, 1976 Tour and 1977 Giro d'Italia, 1977 Giro, Maertens won 28 out of 60 Grand Tour stages that he entered before abandoning the Giro due to injury on stage 8b. He achieved eight Tour stage wins, thirteen Vuelta stage wins and seven Giro stage wins in less than one calendar year. Personal life Maertens was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Verbeeck (cyclist)
Frans Verbeeck (born 13 June 1941) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. Palmarès ;1969 :1st, Grote Prijs Jef Scherens ;1970 :1st, Grote Prijs Jef Scherens :1st, Omloop Het Volk :1st, Stage 1a, Tour of Belgium :1st, Overall, Tour de l'Oise ::1st, Stage 2 :1st, Stage 1, Tour de Luxembourg ;1971 :1st, Amstel Gold Race :1st, Grote Prijs Jef Scherens :1st, Leeuwse Pijl :1st, Stage 1 and 5, Four Days of Dunkirk :1st, Stage 1, 3, 4 and 5, Tour de Luxembourg ;1972 :1st, GP Frans Verbeeck :1st, Leeuwse Pijl :1st, Omloop Het Volk :1st, Tour du Haut-Var :1st, Stage 2, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :1st, Stage 3 and 5a, Tour of Belgium ;1973 : National Road Race Championship :1st, Stage 1, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :1st, Stage 2, Four Days of Dunkirk :1st, Stage 4, Tirreno–Adriatico :1st, Stage 2a (TTT), Tour de France ;1974 :1st, La Flèche Wallonne :1st, Grand Prix de Wallonie :1st, GP Frans Verbeeck :1st, Prologue, Tour of Belgium :1st, Stage 3, Tour de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Godefroot
Walter Godefroot (born 2 July 1943) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of , later known as T-Mobile Team. As amateur cyclist, he won the bronze medal in the individual road race of the 1964 Summer Olympics after his young compatriot Eddy Merckx was caught in the final. Both men turned professional in 1965 and Walter Godefroot was presented as Merckx's bane in his early days, winning several races ahead of him: the Belgian championship in 1965, Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1967) and Paris–Roubaix (1969). But Godefroot eventually didn't have Merckx's abilities in stage races and concentrated on the separate stages in the grand tours. He won ten stages in the Tour de France, including the stage on the Champs-Élysées in 1975 where the Tour finished for the first time, and the green jersey in the 1970 Tour de France, one stage in the 1970 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 1971 Vuelta a España. Being a specialist in one-day c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marino Basso
Marino Basso (born 1 June 1945) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, considered one of the best sprinters of his generation. He won the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Cycling Championship in 1972 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, 1972. Basso was born at Rettorgole di Caldogno, in the Veneto. He was one of the main sprinters of the 1970s, often duelling with Belgians Patrick Sercu, Guido Reybroeck and Roger de Vlaeminck, and fellow Italian Dino Zandegù. Basso won a total of 15 stages at the Giro d'Italia, 6 at the Tour de France and 6 at the Vuelta a España. He was Giro d'Italia's Points classification in the Giro d'Italia, points classification winner in 1971 Giro d'Italia, 1971 and the Italian national champion in 1972. He is not related to Italian cyclist Ivan Basso, but his brother Alcide founded Basso Bikes. After his professional career, Basso became a manager at a number of teams including Preti Mangimi. Major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Bitossi
Franco Bitossi (born 1 September 1940) is an Italian former professional cyclist. He was born in Camaioni di Carmignano. Career Bitossi cycled for three years as an amateur and became a professional in October 1961, after he had reached the required age of 21. As a professional cyclist, from 1961 until 1978, he won a total of 171 races. In 1965, he won the Tour de Suisse and the Züri-Metzgete, which he won again in 1968. In 1967 he won the Tirreno–Adriatico, Giro di Lombardia and Coppa Agostoni, while the following year he became the first Italian to win the points classification in the Tour de France. In 1970, he won the Italian championship.Statistics Franco Bitossi i Cycling Archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Leman
Eric Leman (born 17 July 1946) is a former professional road racing cyclist from West Flanders, Belgium. He won the prestigious Tour of Flanders three times.LaroussTour des Flandres " Les Belges Achille Bruyne, Éric Leman, Johan Museeuw, Tom Boonen et l'Italien Fiorenzo Magni figurent, avec trois victoires chacun, en tête du palmarès de cette classique créée en 1913 et traditionnellement organisé le premier dimanche d'avril. " Major results ;1968 :1st, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne :1st, Porto–Lisboa :1st, Stage 2, Four Days of Dunkirk :1st, Stage 21, Tour de France ;1969 :1st, Dwars door Vlaanderen :1st, Stage 3, Paris–Nice :1st, Stages 1, 2, 5 and 7, Vuelta a Andalucía :1st, Stage 3, Tour de France ;1970 :1st, GP Briek Schotte :1st, Tour of Flanders :1st, Stage 4, Paris–Nice :1st, Stage 1 and 3b, Vuelta a Andalucía :1st, Prologue, Tour of Belgium ;1971 :1st, Gullegem Koerse :1st, Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen :1st, Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen :1st, Omloop Mandel- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianchi (cycling Team)
Bianchi was an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles. A Bianchi cycling team existed in 1899 which implies that Bianchi was sponsoring professional cycling at a very early stage in the sport. It appears that the team existed from 1899 to 1900, then from 1905 to 1966, then from 1973 until 1984. It existed again in 1993 and for the last time in 2003, as . In addition Bianchi has been a co-sponsor of many cycling teams. History In 1899 Giovanni Tommaselli won the first international cycling victory for Bianchi at the world championship of track racing: the '' Grand Prix of Paris''. During the existence of the Bianchi team in Italy in 1919–1920, Bianchi was also a co-sponsor of a French team that was called Peugeot–Bianchi–Pirelli which according to a historical cycling website, the team rode on Peugeot bikes. It is possible that this team rode on Bianchi bikes in Italy. The team had many famous cyclists on the team over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo
Sanremo, also spelled San Remo in English and formerly in Italian, is a (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival and the Milan–San Remo cycling classic. Name While it is often stated in modern folk stories that Sanremo is named after a legendary Saint Remus, the name of the city is actually a phonetic contraction of ("Holy Hermitage of Saint Romulus"), which refers to Romulus of Genoa, the successor to Syrus of Genoa. In Ligurian, its name is or . The non- univerbated spelling ''San Remo'' features on ancient maps of Liguria and maps of the Republic of Genoa, Medieval Italy, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Kingdom of Italy; it was used in 1924 in official documents under Mussolini. This form of the name, now superseded by ''Sanremo'' both official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
