Leopoldo Torricelli

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Leopoldo Torricelli (born February 2, 1893 in Turin ; † November 18, 1930 ibid) was an Italian racing cyclist .

Leopoldo Torricelli was a professional cyclist from 1912 to 1929. His most spectacular success on the road was his victory in the Tour of Lombardy in 1916. He started seven times in this race and was able to achieve a top place every time, so he was third in 1917, Fourth in 1912 and fifth in 1918. In 1913 he finished sixth in the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia , in 1920 he won the fifth stage of the Giro , but then gave up. He started four times at Milan – Sanremo and was among the top 15 each time.

From the beginning of the 1920s, Torricelli shifted increasingly to standing races . From 1924 to 1929 he was six times in a row Italian champion in this discipline, including behind the pacemaker Georges Grolimund . At the UCI track world championships in Paris in 1924 , he took third place.

In 1930, a year after retiring from cycling, Torricelli died of tuberculosis . He is said to have been a descendant of the physicist Evangelista Torricelli .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 46/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 16 .
  2. Memo on radsportseiten.net

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