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Antonio Bailetti

Antonio Bailetti
Personal information
Born (1937-09-29) 29 September 1937 (age 87)
Bosco di Nanto, Italy
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Major wins
Olympic team time trial champion (1960)
2 stages Tour de France
2 stages Giro d'Italia

Antonio Bailetti (born 29 September 1937) is an Italian former 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]

Major results

1960
1st place, gold medalist(s) 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

  1. ^ "Antonio Bailetti Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2014.