Alfredo Dinale

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Alfredo Dinale

Alfredo Dinale (born March 11, 1900 in Vallonara di Marostica , † December 2, 1976 in Vicenza ) was an Italian cyclist and Olympic champion.

In 1924 Alfredo Dinale won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Paris , together with Angelo De Martini , Aurelio Menegazzi and Francesco Zucchetti . He also started in the scratch over 50 kilometers and finished sixth.

That same year, Dinale turned pro without joining a racing team. In the first years of his professional career he mainly focused on road racing and in 1924 he won his first professional victory at the Coppa Bernocchi. In 1925 he got his first professional contract with the Italian racing team Legano, where he met the future world champion Alfredo Binda . In addition to a third place at the Coppa Cavacciocchi, Dinale also achieved five top 10 places for Legano. After that he changed the racing teams every year until 1928, without any further results worth mentioning.

In 1928 he returned to Legano, took part in the Giro d'Italia for the first time and was 19 in the final ranking. He achieved his only stage wins at the Giro in 1929 , but after two daily victories was only 40. In 1930 , Dinale competed for the last time at the Giro d 'Italia and finished 29th out of 67 riders.

Dinale started in a total of 29 six-day races, of which he won three: 1929 in Dortmund and 1931 in Frankfurt with Karl Göbel and 1931 in Paris with Pietro Linari . In 1931 he also won the Madison competitions Prix ​​Dupré-Lapize with Learco Guerra and in 1933 the Prix Houlier-Comès with Linari.

Between 1931 and 1937 Dinale was a professional driver without a contract. After the end of his career as a cyclist, Alfredo Dinale worked with the former Italian professional cyclist Tullio Campagnolo and founded a successful “Scuola di Ciclismo” in Vicenza.

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SURNAME Dinale, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallonara di Marostica
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1976
Place of death Vicenza