Costante Girardengo information

Costante Girardengo
Personal information
Full name	Costante Girardengo
Nickname	Campionissimo No.1
Born	18 March 1893; Novi Ligure, Italy
Died	9 February 1978 (aged 84); Cassano Spinola, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1912–1913	Maino
1914	Automoto-Continental/Maino
1915–1918	Bianchi
1919–1921	Stucchi
1922	Bianchi
1923	Maino/Gürtner-Hutchinson
1924	Maino
1925–1927	Wolsit-Pirelli
1928	Maino/Opel-Torpado
1929–1932	Maino
1933	Maino/Girardengo-Clément
1934–1936	Maino
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia General classification (1919, 1923) 30 stages One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1913, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925) Milan–San Remo (1918, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1928) Giro di Lombardia (1919, 1921, 1922)
Medal record
Representing Italy
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

Costante Girardengo (Italian pronunciation: [koˈstante dʒirarˈdeŋɡo]; 18 March 1893 – 9 February 1978) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer, considered by many to be one of the finest riders in the history of the sport. He was the first rider to be declared a "Campionissimo" or "champion of champions" by the Italian media and fans. At the height of his career, in the 1920s, he was said to be more popular than Mussolini and it was decreed that all express trains should stop in his home town Novi Ligure, an honour only normally awarded to heads of state.^[1]^[2]

His career achievements include two wins in the Giro d'Italia, six wins in Milan–San Remo, three wins in the Giro di Lombardia; he was also Italian road race champion on nine occasions. His professional career was extensive, lasting from 1912 to 1936 and was interrupted by World War I which robbed Girardengo of some of his best years. He was ranked number one in the World in 1919, 1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926. He raced almost exclusively in his home country as was the custom in those days, as foreign travel was not easy. Girardengo was of only small stature and this earned him the nickname "The Novi Runt".^[1]

^ ^a ^b "A Century of Cycling" Page 48 (Gives info on Express trains and "Novi Runt").
^ Costante Girardengo (June 1928). Parla Girardengo [He Speaks Girardengo] (in Italian). Vol. 1. pp. 81–5. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[test1-1] "A Century of Cycling" Page 48 (Gives info on Express trains and "Novi Runt").

[LSF_yr28-2] Costante Girardengo (June 1928). Parla Girardengo [He Speaks Girardengo] (in Italian). Vol. 1. pp. 81–5. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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