Gino Bartali

Gino Bartali
Bartali in 1963
Personal information
Full nameGino Bartali, OMRI
NicknameGino the Pious
Ginettaccio
L'uomo di ferro (The Iron Man)
L'intramontabile (The Timeless)
Born(1914-07-18)18 July 1914
Ponte a Ema, Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Died5 May 2000(2000-05-05) (aged 85)
Florence, Italy
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimbing specialist
Amateur team
1931–1934–
Professional teams
1935Fréjus
1936–1945Legnano
1946–1947Tebag and Legnano
1948Legnano
1949–50Bartali–Gardiol
1951Bartali–Ursus
1952Tebag and Bartali
1953Bartali
1954Bartali–Brooklin
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1938, 1948)
Mountains classification (1938, 1948)
12 individual stages (1937–1950)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (1936, 1937, 1946)
Mountains classification (1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947)
17 individual stages (1935–1954)

Stage races

Tour of the Basque Country (1935)
Tour de Suisse (1946, 1947)
Tour de Romandie (1949)

One-day races and Classics

Coppa Bernocchi (1935)
National Road Race Championships (1935, 1937, 1940, 1952)
Giro di Lombardia (1936, 1939, 1940)
Giro del Lazio (1937)
Giro del Piemonte (1937, 1939, 1951)
Tre Valli Varesine (1938)
Milan–San Remo (1939, 1940, 1947, 1950)
Giro di Toscana (1939, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1953)
Züri-Metzgete (1946, 1948)
Giro dell'Emilia (1952, 1953)
Righteous
Among the Nations
By country

Gino Bartali, OMRI[1] (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒiːno ˈbartali]; 18 July 1914 – 5 May 2000),[2] 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.[3][4]

In September 2013, 13 years after his death, Bartali was recognised as a "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem for his efforts to aid Jews during World War II.[5]

  1. ^ "Quirinale, Presidenza della Republica, Gino Bartalli honoured, Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana".
  2. ^ Gino Bartali. VeloPalmares
  3. ^ Eurosport, Tour De France, 2008, Legends, Gino Bartali. Eurosport.fr (4 July 2008). Retrieved on 6 August 2014.
  4. ^ "The Tour de France champion who saved hundreds of Jews". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ^ Crutchley, Peter (9 May 2014). "Gino Bartali: The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy". BBC News.