Luigi Barral (23 March 1907 in

Perosa Argentina Perosa Argentina (French: Pérouse) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northwest of Turin, in the val Chisone. The population of the village is 3061 (30 June 2023). I ...

– 7 November 1962 in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

) was an Italian cyclist. He became a French citizen in 1949.

Major results

;1931 : 1st

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;1932 : 1st Mount Faron Hill Climb : 1st Grand Prix de Nice : 2nd Grand Prix de Cannes : 8th Overall

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: 9th Overall

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;1933 : 1st Nice–Mont Agel : 2nd

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: 3rd Circuit de la Haute-Savoie ;1934 : 1st Nice–Mont Agel : 1st Mount Faron Hill Climb : 3rd

Tre Valli Varesine The Tre Valli Varesine is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Varese, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2021 it joined the UCI ProSeries calendar after being cancelled in 2020. A ...

: 10th Overall

;1935 : 1st Grand Prix de Nice : 1st Nice–Mont Agel : 3rd Marseille–Nice : 3rd Circuit des villes d'eaux d'Auvergne ;1936 : 1st Marseille–Nice : 1st Nice–Mont Agel : 1st Puy de Dome : 3rd Tour du Vaucluse : 3rd

;1937 : 1st Circuit des Cols Pyrénéens : 1st Mount Faron Hill Climb : 1st Nice–Mont Agel : 2nd Polymultipliée : 3rd Grand Prix de Cannes ;1938 : 2nd Nice–Mont Agel ;1939 : 1st Mount Faron Hill Climb

References

1907 births 1962 deaths Italian male cyclists Naturalized citizens of France French male cyclists Cyclists from the Metropolitan City of Turin 20th-century Italian sportsmen 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-bio-1900s-stub