Giuseppe Azzini (26 March 1891 – 11 November 1925) was an Italian

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

. He won two stages of the

1913 Giro d'Italia The 1913 Giro d'Italia was the fifth edition of the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Tour organized and sponsored by the newspaper ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''. The race began on 6 May in Milan with a stage that stretched to Genoa, finishing back in Mi ...

and finished third overall.

Career

Azzini's best race of his career was the

. The following year he tried to repeat his performance. He achieved two stage wins in a row and a day in the race lead. In the final kilometres of the sixth stage Azzini disappeared. The organisers sent search parties out looking for the following day and he was found sleeping in a barn. That was his race over. 90 percent of the riders who started the Giro did not finish.

Major results

Sources: ;1911 : 1st Overall Giro dell'Umbria : 1st Amateur Road race championship ;1912 (1 Pro win) : 1st National road race championship ;1913 (3) : 1st Milano-Torino : 3rd Overall

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::1st Stages 4 & 5 ::Held lead after stage 7 : 4th Giro della Romagna ;1914 (2) :

::1st Stages 4 & 5 ::Held lead after stage 5 : 2nd

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: 2nd Milano-Torino : 3rd National road race championship : 8th Giro dell'Emilia ;1915 : 5th

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;1918 : 6th

;1919 : 2nd Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma : 3rd Milano-Torino : 3rd National road race championship : 4th

;1920 (1) : 1st Giro della Provincia Milano : 2nd Milano–Modena : 4th

: 4th

: 4th National road race championship : 8th

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;1921 (1) : 1st Giro della Provincia Milano : 2nd

Genoa–Nice Genoa–Nice was a professional cycle race held as a single-day race between Genoa, Italy and Nice, France. It was first held in 1910 and held for the final time in 1975. In 1961 and 1962 it was part of the Super Prestige Pernod The Super Prest ...

: 2nd Giro del Piemonte : 3rd

: 3rd Nice - Mont Agel : 4th Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma : 5th Milano-Torino ;1922 : 2nd

: 2nd Giro della Provincia Milano : 5th Giro del Piemonte : 6th Giro della Romagna ;1923 : 2nd Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma : 3rd

: 5th

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;1924 : 8th

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General classification results timeline

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References

External links

* 1891 births 1925 deaths Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Cyclists from the Province of Mantua People from Gazzuolo 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-cycling-bio-stub