Ruggero Ferrario (7 October 1897 – 15 July 1976) 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 ...

and Olympic champion in

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. He won a gold medal in

team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

at the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i ...

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(with Arnaldo Carli,

Franco Giorgetti Franco Giorgetti (13 October 1902 – 18 March 1983) was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling. Giorgetti was born in Bovisio-Masciago. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwer ...

and Primo Magnani)."1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Cycling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 October 2008) He won the first

Coppa Bernocchi The Coppa Bernocchi is a European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before joining the UCI ProSeries in 2020. In 1 ...

race in 1919.

References

1897 births 1976 deaths Italian male cyclists Olympic gold medalists for Italy Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Italy Italian track cyclists Cyclists from Milan Olympic gold medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub