Eugenio Bruni
Eugenio Bruni , also Eugène Bruni (born February 4, 1884 in Boulogne sur Seine , † October 12, 1956 in Nanterre ) was an Italian - French cyclist .
Eugenio Bruni was born in France as one of 13 children to an Italian family who came from Bardi . He was a professional racing driver from 1901 to 1919. In 1901 he was third in the French standing championship and vice-world champion in the same discipline at the UCI track world championships in 1908 in Steglitz . In 1902 he drove together with Lucien Louvet the first two-man team event in France in a six-hour race on the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris . After the fatal fall of the cyclist Harry Elkes in 1903, Bruni was one of the first racing drivers to wear a crash cap that he had developed himself.
On the occasion of the First World War , it turned out that Bruni's nationality was unclear because he was asked to do military service by both Italy and France. Finally, he fought on the French side as a soldier, but this did not prevent him from participating in Italian standing championships and also setting an Italian record. He also started for Italy in the 1908 World Railroad Championships.
Web links
- Eugenio Bruni in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Bruni on museociclismo.it (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruni, Eugenio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bruni, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-French racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne sur Seine |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1956 |
| Place of death | Nanterre |