Giuseppe Azzini

Giuseppe Azzini

Giuseppe Azzini (1911)
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Date of birth	March 26, 1891
date of death	December 11, 1925
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Team (s)
1910–1912 1913 1913 1914 1914 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923–1924	Legnano Otav Legnano Dei - Pirelli Bianchi - Pirelli Bianchi Legnano - Pirelli Bianchi - Pirelli Stucchi - Pirelli Maino - Bergougnan Maino
Last updated: April 18, 2017

Giuseppe Azzini (born March 26, 1891 in Gazzuolo , † December 11, 1925 in Ospedaletti ) was an Italian cyclist .

Azzini was the brother of professional cyclists Ernesto and Luigi Azzini . In 1913 he won the Milan – Turin race . At the Giro d'Italia in 1913 , he won the fourth and fifth stages and took third place in the overall standings. In 1914 he also won two stages of the Giro d'Italia and wore the Maglia Rosa for one day. After the First World War , he won the Giro della Provincia Milano in 1920 and 1921 . In 1925 he started the six-day race in New York and finished fifth with the Tunisian Ali Neffati . As a professional driver, he won a total of nine races.

In the same year Giuseppe Azzini died at the age of 34 years on tuberculosis as his older brother Ernesto four years earlier.

successes

1911

• Giro dell'Umbria
• Italian road champion ( amateurs )

1913

• two stages of the Giro d'Italia
• Giro Tre Province

1914

• two stages of the Giro d'Italia

1920

• Overall ranking and one stage Giro della Provincia Milano (with Costante Girardengo )

1921

• Giro della Provincia Milano

Web links

• Giuseppe Azzini in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Azzini on cyclinghalloffame.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 29 (Italian).