Learco Guerra

Learco Guerra

Learco Guerra (born October 14, 1902 in Bagnolo San Vito , Province of Mantua , † February 7, 1963 in Milan ) was an Italian cyclist .

Athletic career

Learco Guerra's first "big year" was 1930. Although he only finished ninth at the Giro d'Italia , he was Italian road racing champion and finished second at the Tour de France and the World Championship . 1931 Guerra became world champion and Italian champion; In the same year he won the Prix ​​Dupré-Lapize rail competition in Paris together with Alfredo Dinale . In 1932 he won the Italian championship again, and at the World Championships he finished first in the individual time trial, but did not get past fourth place in the Giro . In 1933 he again won the national championship title and won the classic Milan – Sanremo . At the Tour de France he finished second behind Georges Speicher .

In 1934 he became Italian champion again, won the Giro and the Tour of Lombardy and was runner-up behind Karel Kaers . In 1935 he finished fourth at the Giro and again second at Milan-Sanremo. After winning the national championship in the standing race in 1942, he ended his career.

Guerra's nickname was "The Locomotive". He died of complications from Parkinson's disease .

Familiar

Learco Guerra was the uncle of Gino Guerra, who was scheduled as a track cyclist for a start at the Olympic Summer Games in London in 1948 on tandem with Ferdinando Terruzzi . However, he was replaced at short notice by Renato Perona , who then became Olympic champion with Terruzzi . Learco Guerra directed the Italian selection of cyclists at the Games.

Web links

Commons : Learco Guerra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Learco Guerra in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Learco Guerra in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 58/1948 . Cologne, S. 8 .