User:Ukexpat/Luigi Ganna

Career
Dubbed The Luisin the Luison and with a powerful physique, was born into a peasant family. Later he became a construction worker in Milan, Following every day by bicycle 100 km, from Induno Olona to Milan and back.

His talent is revealed in 1905 when he came third in the Tour of Lombardy won by Giovanni Gerbi, Where he was awarded a prize of 18 pounds and a contract with the Whites from 200 lire a month.

In 1907 triumphed in Milan-Turin-Milan, While in 1908 Giro di Lombardia and Milan-Sanremo he finished in second place, closed the fifth Tour de France. In the same year, the velodrome in Milan, set a record time with 40.405 km.

His golden year was the 1909, When he won the Milan-Sanremo in 9 hours and 32 minutes and, indeed, the first edition of Tour of Italy.

In 1911 won the first stage with uphill finish of the Giro, the Sestriere. In 1912 won the Long Distance 600 km, riding a bicycle of his own construction.

In 1914 retired racing the activity, he founded the sports team that bore his name, and devoted himself to run the factory bikes a few years earlier, he had purchased with the proceeds of the career. It was on a bike that Ganna Fiorenzo Magni won the Tour of Italy 1951.

After the World War IThe company also began building motorcycles and Ganna soon became a popular brand in Italy and abroad.

Known for his outspokenness, Luigi Ganna was in the annals of sports journalism for the lapidary answer given to the reporter who urged him to make a comment hot, asking him what his most vivid impression after the victory: «The most vivid impression brusa me is that both the 'l Cu ! [1] »

A Luigi Ganna is called the velodrome Varese, Located within the Stadio Franco Ossola.

Prize list
Luigi Ganna, exhausted after arriving in Milan on 1 Tour of Italy, in 1909

1906

Cup Val d'Olona Milan Plan of Giovi Milano-

1907

Milan-Turin-Milan Stage 2 Tour of Sicily (Messina > Catania) 5 th step Tour of Sicily (Caltanissetta > Agrigento) Sanremo-Ventimiglia-San Remo

1909

Milan-Sanremo 4 th stage Tour of Italy (Naples > Rome) 5 th step Tour of Italy (Rome > Florence) 7 th step Tour of Italy (Genoa > Turin) Overall Ranking Tour of Italy Stage 1 Rome-Naples-Rome (Rome > Naples)

1910

6th Tour of Italy (Rome > Florence) 7th Tour of Italy (Florence > Genoa) 10th Tour of Italy (Turin > Milan) Tour of Emilia Milan and Modena

1911

Stage 1 Race of the three capitals (Turin > Parma)

1912

Gran Fondo (Milan > Milan)

1913

Stage 1 Rome-Naples-Rome (Rome > Naples)

Placements   Great revolutions

Tour of Italy

1909: winner 1910: 3 1911: retired (3 rd stage) 1912: retired (5 th step) 1913: 5 º 1914: retired (2 nd stage)

Tour de France

1907: retired (6 th stage) 1908: 5 º 1909: retired (3 rd stage)

Classics

Tour of Lombardy

1905: 3 1906: 3 1907: 3 1908: 2 1909: 6 1910: 2 1911: 12 °

Milan-Sanremo

1907: 4 1908: 2 1909: winner 1911: 3 1913: 20 ° 1914: 6