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Gastone Nencini
Nencini at the 1960 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name
Gastone Nencini
Nickname
Il Leone del Mugello Faccia di fatica (Fatigue-face)[1]
Born
(1930-03-01)1 March 1930 Barberino di Mugello, Italy
Died
1 February 1980(1980-02-01) (aged 49) Florence, Italy
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
Tour de France
General classification (1960)
Mountains classification (1957)
4 individual stages (1956, 1957, 1958)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (1957)
Mountains classification (1955)
7 individual stages (1955, 1958, 1959, 1960)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Italy
World Championships
1953 Lugano
Amateur's Road Race
Gastone Nencini (Italian pronunciation:[ɡaˈstoːnenenˈtʃiːni]; 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]
^Vergne, Laurent (22 July 2015). "Cannibale, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy torticolis… le Top 20 des surnoms mythiques du cyclisme" [Cannibal, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy Torticollis... the Top 20 mythical nicknames of cycling]. Eurosport (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2016.
^Gastone Nencini at Cycling Archives
^Brisson, Jean-Pascal (2014). Les 100 plus grands cyclistes de l'histoire. Paris: Editions Clément. p. 77. ISBN 979-1092547-65-8.
^McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.
^McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.
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