The trio Bartali, Coppi and Magni dominated the Giro for two decades
Going through Italian cycling and the Giro d’Italia of the forties and fifties, even partly the thirties, has three fixed surnames: Bartali, Coppi and Magni.
Cyclists of all time, very present today, deserving of continued memory from their country.
We have done a sporting tour of those three greats, and here you have a small summary of the greatness they earned on the road.
Gino Bartali
Merits on the road: two Tours of France, three Giros d’Italia, four Milan-Sanremo, three Giros de Lombardia, 91 victories to his credit and a long etc.…
Méritos civilis: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Gold Medal of Civil Merit.
There are too many words when talking about this Campeonissimo.
If his track record astonishes, it does so even more. the story in which he managed to save no more and no less than 800 Italian Jews of being deported to concentration camps in Germany, which earned him being declared “Righteous Among Nations” by Yad Vashem, the National Holocaust Remembrance Agency.
In the Giro that left Israel this story was very celebrated.
We are talking about a cyclist and a person in capital letters.
In the ranking of the 100 best cyclists of all time he is sixth.
His duels with Fausto Coppi will be remembered forever as the most beautiful in the history of the Giro.
Once retired, he was director of the San Pellegrino team with Coppi under his orders and then a commentator for RAI.
His daughter Andrea Bartali once said about what her father did with the Jews:
«My father was a fervent Catholic. He almost never told us about what he did during the war. He only said that “in life, these things are done and that’s enough.””.
These words give us an idea of the kind of person Bartali was.
A heart attack left him dead in Florence in 2000.
Castellania, province of Alessandria, should always be celebrating because another of the Campeonissimos was born here.
At the age of 8 he got his first bicycle which he used to work as a delivery boy. In 1937 he met Biagio Cavannaits discoverer.
It is difficult to know where to start with Fausto, whether for the hour record, or for being the first rider in history to win the Giro and Tour in the same year…
Steles of honor in his memory can forever be admired on the Stelvio, Pordoi and on the Col de Larche.
In 1965 the “Cima Coppi” appeared for the first time in the Giro to designate the highest peak of that edition.
There is also a monument in Turin to his memory and in that same city a cycling stadium bears his name.
Number three in the classification of the 100 best cyclists in history… his hour record at the Vigorelli velodrome in Milan, 45.871km, lasted 24 years until Jacques Anquetil took it from him.
Talking about Coppi is talking about BianchiTheir union lasted ten years.
In his first year he won the Milan-Sanremo with an insulting superiority, the second place reached 14 minutes.
The journalist Nicolò Carosio narrated it like this:
“First classified, Fausto Coppi, while waiting for second we broadcast dance music”
In 1949 he won Milan-Sanremo, Giro d Lombardia and Giro d’Italia.
In that Giro one of his most famous feats comes to life: 192 km of escape and stage victory. Mario Ferretti in his chronicle of the day would pronounce a phrase that would pass down to posterity:
“A man alone in command, his jersey is white and light blue. His name, Fausto Coppi »
Es five-time Giro championdouble winner of the Tour, world road cycling champion, hour record, Italian champion, Paris-Roubaix champion, Walloon Fleche and a long etc.…
At the age of 40, a victim of malaria, he died in Tortona.
Fiorenzo Magni
Considered the third man to know behind Coppi y Bartali. He was born in 1920 in Vaiano.
Three Giros d’Italia, other Tours of Flanders, consecutively winning the name of “Leone delle Fiandre”, champion of Italy, first cyclist to win stages in all three grand tours in different years, second in the world road championship.
At 35 years old, he is the oldest winner of a Giro.
In 1946 cannot compete due to its adherence to fascism and for competing under a false name.
He will also be remembered for racing the 1956 edition of the Giro with a shoulder fracture holding the handlebars through a tubular between his teeth.
In 2004 he was awarded the gold necklace for sporting merit.
In 2012 he died from an aneurysm.
2024-05-24 22:17:30
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