Luigi Arienti
Appearance
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Born | Desio, Italy | 6 January 1937||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luigi Arienti (born 6 January 1937) is an Italian former racing cyclist. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he and teammates Marino Vigna, Mario Vallotto and Franco Testa won an Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit, with a time of 4:30.90.
Arienti was one of the best Italian amateur cyclists in 1960, and was selected for the Olympic games.[1] After the Olympic Games, Arienti became professional, focussing on track events and six-day racing.[1] After 1972 he ended his career.[2]
References
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- ^ a b Luigi Arienti. Sports reference
- ^ Luigi Arienti at Cycling Archives
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- 1937 births
- Living people
- People from Desio
- Italian male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Italian track cyclists
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from the Province of Monza e Brianza
- Italian cycling biography, 1930s birth stubs
- Italian cycling Olympic medalist stubs