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| Full name | Gastone Nencini | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Il Leone del Mugello Faccia di fatica (Fatigue-face)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 March 1930 Barberino di Mugello, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 February 1980 (aged 49) Florence, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
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| 1953–1954 | Legnano–Pirelli | ||||||||||||||
| 1955–1958 | Leo–Chlorodont | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Carpano | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | Ignis | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Springoil–Fuchs | ||||||||||||||
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Gastone Nencini (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaˈstoːne nenˈtʃiːni]; 1 March 1930 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia.[2]
Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello" (from his birthplace Barberino di Mugello, near Florence), Nencini was a powerful all-rounder, particularly strong in the mountains.
He was an amateur painter and a chain smoker.[3] He was a gifted descender. "The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani.[4] It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain on Stage 14 of the 1960 Tour de France that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine.[5]
- ^ Vergne, Laurent (22 July 2015). "Cannibale, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy torticolis… le Top 20 des surnoms mythiques du cyclisme" [Cannibal, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy Torticollis... the Top 20 mythical nicknames of cycling]. Eurosport (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ Gastone Nencini at Cycling Archives (archived)
- ^ Brisson, Jean-Pascal (2014). Les 100 plus grands cyclistes de l'histoire. Paris: Editions Clément. p. 77. ISBN 979-1092547-65-8.
- ^ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.
- ^ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.