Giovanni Valetti
Italian cyclist
Personal information | |
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Full name | Giovanni Valetti |
Born | (1913-09-22)22 September 1913 Vinovo, Italy |
Died | 28 May 1998(1998-05-28) (aged 84) Avigliana, Italy |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1935 | Individual |
1936–1938 | Fréjus |
1939 | Fréjus/France Sport-Wolber |
1940 | Bianchi |
1941 | Olmo/Olympia |
1942–1943 | Olmo |
1944 | Individual |
1945 | Fréjus |
1946–1948 | Individual |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
Stage races
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Giovanni Valetti (22 September 1913 – 28 May 1998) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his two overall wins in the 1938 and 1939 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1938 Tour de Suisse.
Major results
- 1933
- 1st Overall Giro del Lazio
- 1st Stage 3
- 5th Overall Gran Piemonte
- 1936
- 5th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1937
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 3
- 3rd Giro di Toscana
- 1938
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stages 4a, 7a (ITT) & 15
- 1st Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 5th Grand Prix des Nations
- 1939
- 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Giro della Provincia Milano
- 1940
- 10th Giro di Lombardia
- 1941
- 8th Giro di Toscana
- 1942
- 10th Giro del Veneto
- 1943
- 3rd Giro della Provincia Milano
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 |
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Giro d'Italia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
Tour de France | — | DNF | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- Giovanni Valetti at Cycling Archives
- Giovanni Valetti at ProCyclingStats
- Giovanni Valetti at CycleBase
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Giro d'Italia general classification winners
- 1909: Luigi Ganna
- 1910–11: Carlo Galetti
- 1912* Atala–Dunlop (Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto, Eberardo Pavesi)
- 1913: Carlo Oriani
- 1914: Alfonso Calzolari
- 1915–18 World War I
- 1919: Costante Girardengo
- 1920: Gaetano Belloni
- 1921–22: Giovanni Brunero
- 1923: Costante Girardengo
- 1924: Giuseppe Enrici
- 1925: Alfredo Binda
- 1926: Giovanni Brunero
- 1927–29: Alfredo Binda
- 1930: Luigi Marchisio
- 1931: Francesco Camusso
- 1932: Antonio Pesenti
- 1933: Alfredo Binda
- 1934: Learco Guerra
- 1935: Vasco Bergamaschi
- 1936–37: Gino Bartali
- 1938–39: Giovanni Valetti
- 1940: Fausto Coppi
- 1941–45 World War II
- 1946: Gino Bartali
- 1947: Fausto Coppi
- 1948: Fiorenzo Magni
- 1949: Fausto Coppi
- 1950: Hugo Koblet
- 1951: Fiorenzo Magni
- 1952–53: Fausto Coppi
- 1954: Carlo Clerici
- 1955: Fiorenzo Magni
- 1956: Charly Gaul
- 1957: Gastone Nencini
- 1958: Ercole Baldini
- 1959: Charly Gaul
- 1960: Jacques Anquetil
- 1961: Arnaldo Pambianco
- 1962–63: Franco Balmamion
- 1964: Jacques Anquetil
- 1965: Vittorio Adorni
- 1966: Gianni Motta
- 1967: Felice Gimondi
- 1968: Eddy Merckx
- 1969: Felice Gimondi
- 1970: Eddy Merckx
- 1971: Gösta Pettersson
- 1972–74: Eddy Merckx
- 1975: Fausto Bertoglio
- 1976: Felice Gimondi
- 1977: Michel Pollentier
- 1978: Johan De Muynck
- 1979: Giuseppe Saronni
- 1980: Bernard Hinault
- 1981: Giovanni Battaglin
- 1982: Bernard Hinault
- 1983: Giuseppe Saronni
- 1984: Francesco Moser
- 1985: Bernard Hinault
- 1986: Roberto Visentini
- 1987: Stephen Roche
- 1988: Andy Hampsten
- 1989: Laurent Fignon
- 1990: Gianni Bugno
- 1991: Franco Chioccioli
- 1992–93: Miguel Induráin
- 1994: Evgeni Berzin
- 1995: Tony Rominger
- 1996: Pavel Tonkov
- 1997: Ivan Gotti
- 1998: Marco Pantani
- 1999: Ivan Gotti
- 2000: Stefano Garzelli
- 2001: Gilberto Simoni
- 2002: Paolo Savoldelli
- 2003: Gilberto Simoni
- 2004: Damiano Cunego
- 2005: Paolo Savoldelli
- 2006: Ivan Basso
- 2007: Danilo Di Luca
- 2008: Alberto Contador
- 2009: Denis Menchov
- 2010: Ivan Basso
- 2011: Michele Scarponi
- 2012: Ryder Hesjedal
- 2013: Vincenzo Nibali
- 2014: Nairo Quintana
- 2015: Alberto Contador
- 2016: Vincenzo Nibali
- 2017: Tom Dumoulin
- 2018: Chris Froome
- 2019: Richard Carapaz
- 2020: Tao Geoghegan Hart
- 2021: Egan Bernal
- 2022: Jai Hindley
- 2023: Primož Roglič
- 2024: Tadej Pogačar
*In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification
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