Franco Giorgetti
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Full name | Franco Giorgetti | ||||||||||||||
Born | Bovisio-Masciago, Italy | 13 October 1902||||||||||||||
Died | 18 March 1983 Varese, Italy | (aged 80)||||||||||||||
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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.
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).[1][2] Giorgetti also specialized in six-day racing. He won the prestigious Six Days of New York a record eight times, the first time in 1926 with Reggie McNamara. He died in Varese, aged 80.
References
- ^ "Franco Giorgetti Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ^ "1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Cycling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 12 October 2008)
External links
- Franco Giorgetti at Cycling Archives (archived)
Categories:
- 1902 births
- 1983 deaths
- Italian male cyclists
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Track cyclists
- People from the Province of Monza e Brianza
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- People from Brianza
- Sportspeople from Lombardy
- Italian cycling Olympic medalist stubs