Gastone Nencini
 Nencini at the 1960 Tour de France | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Gastone Nencini | |||||||||||||
| Nickname | Il Leone del Mugello, Faccia di fatica (Fatigue-face)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Born | (1930-03-01)1 March 1930 Barberino di Mugello, Italy | |||||||||||||
| Died | 1 February 1980(1980-02-01) (aged 49) Florence, Italy | |||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
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| 1953–1954 | Legnano–Pirelli | |||||||||||||
| 1955–1958 | Leo–Chlorodont | |||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Carpano | |||||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | Ignis | |||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Springoil–Fuchs | |||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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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]
Contents
1 Downhill race
2 Memory
3 Teams
4 Major achievements
5 Other results
6 Victories
6.1 Grand Tour results timeline
7 See also
8 Notes and references
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
Gastone Nencini with wife Bianca, wearing the pink jersey from the Giro d'Italia 1957
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)
Giro d'Italia (1957), overall classification and mountains classification
Tour de France (1960), overall classification
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 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 (no started on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not Ranked in this classification |
See also
- List of doping cases in cycling
Notes and references
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gastone Nencini. |
^ 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..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ 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. 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.
^ 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 1: 1903-1964. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 1-59858-180-5.
^ A motorcyclist who times riders' lead or deficit during a race and displays it on a blackboard
^ Coup de Pédales, Belgium, undated cutting
