Franco Giorgetti
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| Full name | Franco Giorgetti | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 October 1902 Bovisio-Masciago, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 March 1983 (aged 80) Varese, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Franco Giorgetti (13 October 1902 – 18 March 1983) was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.[1]
Giorgetti was born in Bovisio-Masciago. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp (with Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario and Primo Magnani). Giorgetti also specialized motor-paced racing. He was the American motor-paced champion in 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1934 and won the Italian championship in 1933 and 1941. He was a top six-day racer as well. He won the prestigious Six Days of New York a record eight times, the first time in 1926 with Reggie McNamara. He returned to Italy before World War II and died in Varese, aged 80.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Franco Giorgetti". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Franco Giorgetti at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Franco Giorgetti at ProCyclingStats
- Franco Giorgetti at CycleBase
- Franco Giorgetti at Olympedia
- Franco Giorgetti at Olympics.com
- Franco Giorgetti at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
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- 1902 births
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- Italian male cyclists
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
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- Olympic cyclists for Italy
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- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- People from Brianza
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