CYCLIST

Gastone Nencini

1930 - 1980

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gastone Nencini has received more than 70,848 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Gastone Nencini is the 58th most popular cyclist (down from 52nd in 2019), the 2,699th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,661st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Gastone Nencini ranks 58 out of 1,613. Before him are Walter Godefroot, Aristidis Konstantinidis, Erik De Vlaeminck, Adri van der Poel, Tony Rominger, and August von Gödrich. After him are Alberto Contador, Stan Ockers, Maurice De Waele, Bjarne Riis, André Leducq, and Bernard Thévenet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Gastone Nencini ranks 237. Before him are Norio Ohga, Ken Naganuma, Frederick Wiseman, Adile Naşit, Roy E. Disney, and Jim Hall. After him are Jim Rohn, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Juan Gelman, Josef Hügi, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, and Miodrag Bulatović. Among people deceased in 1980, Gastone Nencini ranks 134. Before him are Hellmuth Walter, Celia Sánchez, Marian Spychalski, Roza Eskenazi, Alfred Andersch, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. After him are Fatmawati, Andrei Amalrik, David Janssen, Alfred Neubauer, André Leducq, and Sohrab Sepehri.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gastone Nencini ranks 2,699 out of 5,161. Before him are Enrico Cecchetti (1850), Ciro Immobile (1990), Attilio Bettega (1953), Benedetto I Zaccaria (1240), Renzo Zorzi (1946), and Enrico Chiesa (1970). After him are Sigismondo d'India (1582), Placidia (441), Gioacchino Guaragna (1908), Nicola Fago (1677), Marco Uccellini (1603), and Leopoldo Trieste (1917).

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Among CYCLISTS In Italy

Among cyclists born in Italy, Gastone Nencini ranks 10. Before him are Felice Gimondi (1942), Marco Pantani (1970), Alfredo Binda (1902), Ottavio Bottecchia (1894), Carlo Galetti (1882), and Francesco Moser (1951). After him are Luigi Ganna (1883), Paolo Pedretti (1906), Leandro Faggin (1933), Pino Cerami (1922), Renato Longo (1937), and Ercole Baldini (1933).

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