Gastone Nencini

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)
Born	1 March 1930; Barberino di Mugello, Italy
Died	1 February 1980 (aged 49); Florence, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (1960) Mountains classification (1957) Giro d'Italia General classification (1957)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Italy
World Championships

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]

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,^[6] 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!^[7]

Memory

At the Futa pass, on the mountains over his native Barberino di Mugello, a monument is placed remembering him: a big bronze bas-relief portrait of him racing and the inscription which says: "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").

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

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)

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)

Victories

1955

Giro d'Italia

2 stages

mountains 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

Grand Tour results timeline

	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
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	—	—	—	—	—	—

Legend
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

Notes and references

^ 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. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^ 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. Vol 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^ A motorcyclist who times riders' lead or deficit during a race and displays it on a blackboard
^ Coup de Pédales, Belgium, undated cutting

[1] 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.

[2] Gastone Nencini at Cycling Archives

[3] Brisson, Jean-Pascal (2014). Les 100 plus grands cyclistes de l'histoire. Paris: Editions Clément. p. 77. ISBN 979-1092547-65-8.

[4] 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. Vol. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

[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. Vol 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

[6] A motorcyclist who times riders' lead or deficit during a race and displays it on a blackboard

[7] Coup de Pédales, Belgium, undated cutting

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v t e Tour de France general classification winners
1903–1919	1903: Maurice Garin 1904: Henri Cornet 1905: Louis Trousselier 1906: René Pottier 1907–08: Lucien Petit-Breton 1909: François Faber 1910: Octave Lapize 1911: Gustave Garrigou 1912: Odile Defraye 1913–14: Philippe Thys 1915–1918: World War I 1919: Firmin Lambot
1920–1939	1920: Philippe Thys 1921: Léon Scieur 1922: Firmin Lambot 1923: Henri Pélissier 1924–25: Ottavio Bottecchia 1926: Lucien Buysse 1927–28: Nicolas Frantz 1929: Maurice De Waele 1930: André Leducq 1931: Antonin Magne 1932: André Leducq 1933: Georges Speicher 1934: Antonin Magne 1935: Romain Maes 1936: Sylvère Maes 1937: Roger Lapébie 1938: Gino Bartali 1939: Sylvère Maes
1940–1959	1940–1946: World War II 1947: Jean Robic 1948: Gino Bartali 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950: Ferdinand Kübler 1951: Hugo Koblet 1952: Fausto Coppi 1953–1955: Louison Bobet 1956: Roger Walkowiak 1957: Jacques Anquetil 1958: Charly Gaul 1959: Federico Bahamontes
1960–1979	1960: Gastone Nencini 1961–1964: Jacques Anquetil 1965: Felice Gimondi 1966: Lucien Aimar 1967: Roger Pingeon 1968: Jan Janssen 1969–1972: Eddy Merckx 1973: Luis Ocaña 1974: Eddy Merckx 1975: Bernard Thévenet 1976: Lucien Van Impe 1977: Bernard Thévenet 1978–79: Bernard Hinault
1980–1998	1980: Joop Zoetemelk 1981–82: Bernard Hinault 1983–84: Laurent Fignon 1985: Bernard Hinault 1986: Greg LeMond 1987: Stephen Roche 1988: Pedro Delgado 1989–90: Greg LeMond 1991–1995: Miguel Indurain 1996: Bjarne Riis 1997: Jan Ullrich 1998: Marco Pantani
1999–2019	1999–2005: results voided because of doping 2006: Óscar Pereiro 2007: Alberto Contador 2008: Carlos Sastre 2009: Alberto Contador 2010: Andy Schleck 2011: Cadel Evans 2012: Bradley Wiggins 2013: Chris Froome 2014: Vincenzo Nibali 2015–2017: Chris Froome 2018: Geraint Thomas 2019: Egan Bernal
2020–present	2020–2021: Tadej Pogačar 2022–2023: Jonas Vingegaard