Gastone Nencini
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| Nickname | Il Leone del Mugello | ||
| Born | March 1, 1930 Italy |
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| Died | February 1, 1980 | ||
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| 1953–1954 1955–1958 1959–1960 1961–1962 1963–1965 |
Legnano Leo-Chlorodont Carpano Ignis Springoil-Fuchs |
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| Infobox last updated on April 1, 2008 |
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Gastone Nencini (Barberino di Mugello, Tuscany 1 March 1930 – Florence, 1 February 1980) was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia.
Nicknamed Il Leone del Mugello, "The Lion of Mugello" (from his birthplace Barberino del Mugello, near Florence), Nencini was a powerful all-rounder, particularly strong in the mountains.
He was an amateur painter and a chain smoker. 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. It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine.
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[edit] Downhill race
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:
- I couldn't tolerate the idea that Nencini was the best descender of the peloton. I said to him, call the blackboard man,[1] we'll do the descent together and whoever comes second pays for the aperitifs this evening. So he called the ardoisier and asked him to follow us. The road was of compressed earth. We attacked the drop flat out. I let Nencini take the lead so that I could see how he negotiated the bends before attacking him. In the end I dropped as though I was alone. At the bottom, I had taken 32 seconds out of him, written on the blackboard. I was really tickled. I had beaten Nencini. The next time I saw him was that evening in the hotel I was staying at. He had just bought me an apéritif![2]
[edit] Teams
- 1953-1954 Legnano
- 1955-1958 Leo-Chlorodont
- 1959-1960 Carpano
- 1961 Ignis
- 1962 Ignis-Moschettieri
- 1963-1964: Springoil-Fuchs
- 1965 Filotex
- 1965 Springoil-Fuchs
[edit] Major achievements
Giro d'Italia (1957), overall classification and mountains classification
Tour de France (1960), overall classification- Tour de France (1957), mountains classification
- Tre Valli Varesine (1956)
[edit] Other results
- 2nd in the Giro d'Italia (1960)
- 2nd in the Trofeo Matteotti (1961)
- 2nd in the Giro dell'Appennino (1962)
- 2nd in the Züri-Metzgete (1964)
- 3rd in the Giro d'Italia (1955)
- 3rd in the Giro del Lazio (1957)
- 3rd in the Milano–Torino (1960)
- 3rd in the Tour de Romandie (1964)
[edit] Victories
- 1955
- Giro d'Italia
- 2 stages
- mountanins classification
- 5 days in Pink jersey
- 1956
- Tre Valli Varesine
- 1 stage in the Tour de France
- 1957
- Tour de France
- 2 stages
- Winner Mountains classification
- Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 1958
- 1 stage in the Tour de France
- 2 stages in the Giro d'Italia
- Circuit of Omegna
- Circuit of Lokeren
- 1959
- 1 stage in the Giro d'Italia
- 1960
- Tour de France
- Overall classification (with 12 days in Yellow jersey)
- 2 stages in the Giro d'Italia
- Grand Prix de Nice
- Circuit of Montélimar
- 1961
- Circuit of Acireale
[edit] Grand Tour results timeline
| 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |
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| Tour | 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 | 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 | 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) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not Ranked in this classification |
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- Gastone Nencini profile at Cycling Archives
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