Felice Gimondi

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Felice Gimondi Road cycling
Felice Gimondi (2009)
Felice Gimondi (2009)
To person
Date of birth September 29, 1942
date of death 16th August 2019
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Street
End of career 1979
Most important successes

Overall classification Tour de France 1965
Overall classification Giro d'Italia 1967 , 1969 , 1976
Overall classification Vuelta a España 1968
Road World Champion 1973
Milan – Sanremo 1974
Paris – Roubaix 1966
Giro di Lombardia 1966, 1973

Last updated: August 17, 2019
Gimondi as the winner of the Tour de l'Avenir 1964

Felice Gimondi (born September 29, 1942 in Sedrina , Bergamo province , † August 16, 2019 in Giardini-Naxos ) was an Italian cyclist . He was one of only seven professional cyclists to win all Grand Tours with the Tour de France , the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España .

biography

Paving stone of honor for Gimondi in Roubaix

After winning the Tour de l'Avenir as an amateur , 22-year-old Felice Gimondi sensationally won the Tour de France in his first year as a professional in 1965 . After his victory, it took 33 years before an Italian, Marco Pantani , won the tour again. Two years later, Gimondi took the first of three overall victories at the Giro d'Italia in 1967 , 1969 and 1976 .

With his victory in the Tour of Spain in 1968, he had won the three most important national tours in the world within three years - an achievement that only the two French Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault , the Belgian Eddy Merckx , the Spaniard Alberto Contador , the British Chris Froome and his compatriot Vincenzo Nibali reached.

Gimondi won numerous classics , such as Paris – Roubaix in 1966, the Tour of Lombardy in 1966 and 1973 and Milan – Sanremo in 1974 . In 1973 he won the title at the World Road Championships in Barcelona , after finishing second in 1971 and third in 1970. He showed particular strength in the individual time trial . He won the Grand Prix Forlì five times, more often than any other driver.

At the Tour de France 1975 , Gimondi received a ten-minute time penalty after a positive doping test.

Gimondi was able to win the six days of Milan in 1972 and 1977 in the course of his career .

In 1979 Felice Gimondi ended his sporting career. In the late 1980s he worked as a sports director for the Gewiss team and was president of Mercatone Uno . He also worked for the bicycle manufacturer Bianchi and was a member of the ProTour Council of the UCI .

On August 16, 2019, Gimondi suffered a fatal cardiac arrest while on a beach holiday. The funeral service took place at his place of residence, Paladina . His grave is on the Cimitero monumentale di Bergamo .

Successes (selection)

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

Important placements

Grand Tour 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 3 5 1 3 1 2 7th 8th 2 3 3 1 15th 11
Yellow jersey Tour de France 1 - 7th - 4th - - 2 - - 6th - - -
Monument to cycling 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Milan – Sanremo - - 4th - 61 45 2 64 3 1 - 62 58 75
Tour of Flanders - 10 4th - 2 12 - 17th - - - 42 - -
Paris – Roubaix - 1 - 20th 4th - 8th - - - - - - -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 24 17th - - 7th - 9 - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - 1 2 7th 11 2 9 3 1 11 - 24 - -
World Championship 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Road racing - 11 29 6th - 3 2 10 1 - 16 7th 11 -
Individual time trial
Team time trial

Teams

Web links

Commons : Felice Gimondi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radicone Felice Gimondi is dead. In: sportnews.bz. August 16, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ralf Meutgens : Doping im Radsport , Bielefeld 2007, p. 257. ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6
  3. ^ Daniel Ostanek: Felice Gimondi dies aged 76. In: cyclingnews.com. August 16, 2019, accessed on August 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gimondi dies of a heart attack while on vacation. In: radsport-news.com. September 2, 1973. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gimondi, Felice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedrina Province of Bergamo
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2019
Place of death Giardini Naxos