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Full name | Gastone Nencini | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Il Leone del Mugello Faccia di fatica (Fatigue-face) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Born | Barberino di Mugello, Italy | 1 March 1930||||||||||||||
Died | 1 February 1980 Florence, Italy | (aged 49)||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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1953–1954 | Legnano–Pirelli | ||||||||||||||
1955–1958 | Leo–Chlorodont | ||||||||||||||
1959–1960 | Carpano | ||||||||||||||
1961–1962 | Ignis | ||||||||||||||
1963–1965 | Springoil–Fuchs | ||||||||||||||
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Gastone Nencini (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaˈstoːne nenˈtʃiːni]; 1 March 1930 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia. [2]
Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello" (from his birthplace Barberino di Mugello, near Florence), Nencini was a powerful all-rounder, particularly strong in the mountains.
He was an amateur painter and a chain smoker. [3] He was a gifted descender. "The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani. [4] It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain on Stage 14 of the 1960 Tour de France that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine. [5]
Nencini's downhill race with Henry Anglade has become part of the legend of cycling. Anglade was a proud rider and Nencini one of the fastest down hills. They met at a col in the Dolomites during the Giro d'Italia. The weather was bad and a snowstorm had forced 57 riders to abandon that day. Anglade said:
At the Futa pass, on the mountains over his native Barberino di Mugello, a monument is placed to his memory: a big bronze bas-relief portrait of him racing and the inscription saying: "A Gastone Nencini. Il comune di Barberino, gli sportivi, i compagni di tante battaglie ricordano il campione mugellano" (translated from Italian: "To Gastone Nencini. The administration of Barberino, the sportsmen, the comrades of many battles remember the Mugello-born champion").
1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |
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Tour de France | DNE | DNE | 22 | 6 | 5 | DNE | 1 | DNE | DNF-14 | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Mountains classification | — | — | 17 | 1 | 7 | — | 4 | — | NR | — | — |
Points classification | — | — | 21 | 9 | 8 | — | 3 | — | NR | — | — |
Giro d'Italia | 16 | 3 | DNF | 1 | 5 | 10 | 2 | DNE | 13 | DNF | DNF |
Stages won | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mountains classification | NR | 1 | NR | 5 | NR | NR | 3 | — | NR | NR | NR |
Points classification | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Vuelta a España | N/A | 18 | DNE | 9 | DNF-9 | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Mountains classification | NR | — | NR | NR | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Points classification | NR | — | 2 | NR | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (December 2010) |
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Gastone Nencini | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Il Leone del Mugello Faccia di fatica (Fatigue-face) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Born | Barberino di Mugello, Italy | 1 March 1930||||||||||||||
Died | 1 February 1980 Florence, Italy | (aged 49)||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
1953–1954 | Legnano–Pirelli | ||||||||||||||
1955–1958 | Leo–Chlorodont | ||||||||||||||
1959–1960 | Carpano | ||||||||||||||
1961–1962 | Ignis | ||||||||||||||
1963–1965 | Springoil–Fuchs | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
| |||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Gastone Nencini (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaˈstoːne nenˈtʃiːni]; 1 March 1930 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia. [2]
Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello" (from his birthplace Barberino di Mugello, near Florence), Nencini was a powerful all-rounder, particularly strong in the mountains.
He was an amateur painter and a chain smoker. [3] He was a gifted descender. "The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani. [4] It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain on Stage 14 of the 1960 Tour de France that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine. [5]
Nencini's downhill race with Henry Anglade has become part of the legend of cycling. Anglade was a proud rider and Nencini one of the fastest down hills. They met at a col in the Dolomites during the Giro d'Italia. The weather was bad and a snowstorm had forced 57 riders to abandon that day. Anglade said:
At the Futa pass, on the mountains over his native Barberino di Mugello, a monument is placed to his memory: a big bronze bas-relief portrait of him racing and the inscription saying: "A Gastone Nencini. Il comune di Barberino, gli sportivi, i compagni di tante battaglie ricordano il campione mugellano" (translated from Italian: "To Gastone Nencini. The administration of Barberino, the sportsmen, the comrades of many battles remember the Mugello-born champion").
1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |
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Tour de France | DNE | DNE | 22 | 6 | 5 | DNE | 1 | DNE | DNF-14 | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Mountains classification | — | — | 17 | 1 | 7 | — | 4 | — | NR | — | — |
Points classification | — | — | 21 | 9 | 8 | — | 3 | — | NR | — | — |
Giro d'Italia | 16 | 3 | DNF | 1 | 5 | 10 | 2 | DNE | 13 | DNF | DNF |
Stages won | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mountains classification | NR | 1 | NR | 5 | NR | NR | 3 | — | NR | NR | NR |
Points classification | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Vuelta a España | N/A | 18 | DNE | 9 | DNF-9 | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Mountains classification | NR | — | NR | NR | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Points classification | NR | — | 2 | NR | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |