Alfredo Binda

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Alfredo Binda

Alfredo Binda (born August 11, 1902 in Cittiglio , Italy ; † July 19, 1986 there ) was an Italian racing cyclist . He was the most successful professional cyclist of the 1920s and won the Giro d'Italia five times and three road world championship titles.

Alfredo Binda grew up in the French Nice in a family of ten brothers and sisters, after he had moved to France at age sixteen. He began his professional career in 1922, having only started as an amateur one year earlier . In his first race he won on a mountainous track by a margin of seventeen minutes. In 1924 he broke off a brief attempt to permanently compete in track races . Later, however, he accepted contracts for track races that were offered to him again, provided they seemed financially lucrative to him. After a few early successes, Binda experienced his breakthrough in 1925 when he first won the Giro d'Italia , the most difficult stage race in the world alongside the Tour de France , and then the classic Lombardy tour . He dominated both races in the following years. He won the Giro a total of five times (1925, 1927 to 1929 , 1933 ) and thus holds the record together with Fausto Coppi and Eddy Merckx . In addition, Binda was able to celebrate 41 stage victories at the Giro - another record that was only surpassed in 2003 by the sprinter Mario Cipollini . In 1927 he won twelve of 15 stages, in 1929 he celebrated eight consecutive victories. Such successes were denied to him at the Tour de France, in his only participation in 1930 he won at least two stages. At the urging of the organizers, Binda did not take part in the Giro in 1930, as they feared that a renewed victory would reduce the audience's interest. For his waiver, he was paid the full prize for the race.

Binda won the road cycling world championship three times ( 1927 , 1930 and 1932 ), including the first road cycling world championship ever, at the Nürburgring in 1927. He holds the record here too, together with the Belgians Rik Van Steenbergen and Eddy Merckx and the Spaniard Óscar Freire and the Slovak Peter Sagan . In addition to four successes in the Lombardy Tour (1925-27, 1931), he won twice in the spring classic Milan – Sanremo (1929, 1931). In 1929 he won the Prix ​​Dupré-Lapize rail competition in Paris together with Domenico Piemontesi . Binda retired in 1936 after breaking a leg in the Milan – San Remo race.

In the 1970s and 1980s, leather foot straps for racing pedals were sold under the name "Alfredo Binda". In 1962, Binda in Cittiglio was elected mayor of his municipality in the local elections.

In Binda's hometown of Cittiglio, a street race for women, called " Trofeo Alfredo Binda ", has been held since 1974 and has been part of the Women's World Cup since 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Alfredo Binda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): Sport album of the Rad world . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1928, p. 63-66 .
  2. ↑ procycling . No. 3/2004 . bede-Verlag, Ruhmannsfelden 2004, p. 102 .
  3. ^ Website of the Museo Alfredo Binda
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 48/1962 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1962, p. 9 .
  5. ^ Website of the Trofeo Binda
personal data
SURNAME Binda, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Cittiglio , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1986
Place of death Cittiglio