Franco Giorgetti (13 October 1902 – 18 March 1983) was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.[1]
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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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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
- 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)