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Luigi Ganna

1883 - 1957

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Luigi Ganna (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1957) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. He was the overall winner of the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909, as well as the first Italian winner of the classic Milan–San Remo earlier that year. Further highlights in his career were his fifth place in the 1908 Tour de France and several podium places in Italian classic races. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Ganna has received more than 67,434 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Luigi Ganna is the 68th most popular cyclist (up from 74th in 2019), the 2,833rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,934th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Cyclist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Luigi Ganna ranks 68 out of 1,613. Before him are Bjarne Riis, André Leducq, Bernard Thévenet, Lucien Aimar, Gösta Pettersson, and Greg LeMond. After him are Maurice Peeters, Jan Ullrich, Hennie Kuiper, Paolo Pedretti, Leandro Faggin, and Romain Maes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Luigi Ganna ranks 146. Before him are Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Naoya Shiga, Giovanni Pastrone, Mihály Babits, Eugen Leviné, and Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Eleazar López Contreras, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Imogen Cunningham, Otto Erich Deutsch, and Arthur L. Newton. Among people deceased in 1957, Luigi Ganna ranks 117. Before him are Avetik Isahakyan, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Georges Hébert, Théophile de Donder, Alexander Vertinsky, and Elia Abu Madi. After him are Ferenc Hirzer, Maurice Peeters, Kiyoshi Shiga, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Harrison Ford, and Peter Freuchen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Ganna ranks 2,833 out of 5,161. Before him are Porcius Festus (null), Nino Vaccarella (1933), Giorgio Biandrata (1515), Asia Argento (1975), Gian Piero Ventura (1948), and Valerio Adami (1935). After him are Giuseppe Abbati (1836), Obizzo II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1247), Vincenzo Camuccini (1771), Roberto Calasso (1941), Lino Banfi (1936), and Giovanni Soranzo (1240).

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Among CYCLISTS In Italy

Among cyclists born in Italy, Luigi Ganna ranks 11. Before him are Marco Pantani (1970), Alfredo Binda (1902), Ottavio Bottecchia (1894), Carlo Galetti (1882), Francesco Moser (1951), and Gastone Nencini (1930). After him are Paolo Pedretti (1906), Leandro Faggin (1933), Pino Cerami (1922), Renato Longo (1937), Ercole Baldini (1933), and Fiorenzo Magni (1920).

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