Antonio Bailetti
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| Born | 29 September 1937 Bosco di Nanto, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 September 2025 (aged 87) Turbigo, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| Olympic team time trial champion (1960) 2 stages Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Antonio Bailetti (29 September 1937 – 7 September 2025) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer who won a gold medal in the team time trial race at the 1960 Olympics. After that Bailetti turned professional. In 1962, he won a stage in the Tour de France and in the Giro d'Italia, after a 120 km solo escape; he repeated this achievement next year. He retired after a heavy fall in Spring 1969.[1] Bailetti died on 7 September 2025, at the age of 87.[2]
Major results
[edit]- 1960
Olympic Games Team Time Trial (with Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni and Livio Trapé)- 1961
- Turbigo
- Nyon
- 1962
- Genoa–Nice
- Maurs
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 9
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 4
- La Charité-sur-Loire
- 1963
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 5
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 21
- 1965
- Monaco
- 1966
- Trofeo Laigueglia
References
[edit]- ^ "Antonio Bailetti Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ L'ORA DEL PASTO. ADDIO A TONI BAILETTI, L'UOMO CHE SAPEVA SORRIDERE E RIDERE (in Italian)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antonio Bailetti.
- Antonio Bailetti at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Antonio Bailetti at ProCyclingStats
- Antonio Bailetti at CycleBase (archive)
- Official Tour de France results for Antonio Bailetti at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 July 2010)
- Antonio Bailetti at Olympedia
- Antonio Bailetti at Olympics.com
- Antonio Bailetti at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
- Antonio Bailetti at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
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