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Key facts
- Full name
- Felice Gimondi
- Nickname
- La Fenice (The Phoenix)
- Born
- ( 1942-09-29 ) 29 September 1942, Sedrina , Italy
- Died
- 16 August 2019 (2019-08-16) (aged 76), Giardini Naxos , Italy
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)
- Discipline
- Classics
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1965 1972
- Salvarani
- 1973 1979
- Bianchi–Campagnolo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Felice
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Sedrina
- Place of death
- Giardini Naxos
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- Salvarani
- Country for sport
- Italy
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- Felice Gimondi 1966.jpg
- Height
- 181
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- date of birth
- 1942-09-29
- Commons category
- Felice Gimondi
- date of death
- 2019-08-16
- name in native language
- Felice Gimondi
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
Felice Gimondi ( Italian pronunciation: [feˈliːtʃe dʒiˈmondi]; 29 September 1942 – 16 August 2019) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. With his 1968 victory at the Vuelta a España, only three years after becoming a professional cyclist, Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix", was the second cyclist (after Jacques Anquetil) to win all three Grand Tours of road cycling: Tour de France (1965, his first year as a pro), Giro d'Italia (1967, 1969 and 1976), and Vuelta a España (1968). He is one of only eight cyclists to have done so.
Gimondi also won the 1973 World Championship road race, as well as three of the five Cycling monuments, winning the Giro di Lombardia twice, and finished on the podium of a grand tour twelve times.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Felice Gimondi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.