Omobono Tenni | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Tirano, Italy | July 24, 1905||||||||||||||
Died | July 1, 1948 Bern, Switzerland | (aged 42)||||||||||||||
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Tommaso Omobono Tenni (July 24, 1905 – July 1, 1948)[1] was an Italian motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed The Black Devil, he was a two-times Grand Prix motorcycle European champion, who raced to 47 victories for Moto Guzzi from 1933 till 1948, the year he died from an accident during practice for the Bern Grand Prix.