Bruno Garonzi Explained

Bruno Garonzi
Birth Date:18 August 1926
Birth Place:Venice, Italy
Death Place:Tréville France
Role:Italian racing cyclist

Bruno Garonzi (18 August 1926  - 11 January 1950) was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1949 Tour de France.[1] He died at age twenty-three following stomach surgery to treat what was described as an "incurable disease".[2] [3]

Major results

1949
  • 2nd Critérium des Pyrénéens, (Circuit des Cols Pyrénéens), France
  • 13th Stage 1 Tour de France, Reims (Champagne-Ardenne), France
  • 73rd Stage 2 Tour de France, Brussel/Bruxelles (Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), Belgium
  • abandoned Stage 3 Tour de France
  • 2nd Critérium cycliste international de Quillan, (Quillan), Quillan (Languedoc-Roussillon), France
  • 2nd Saarland Rundfahrt, Germany

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: 36ème Tour de France 1949. Memoire du cyclisme. French. 9 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20120124102917/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1949.php. 24 January 2012.
    2. "Bruno Garonzi (1926-1950), Hommage a un espoir disparu du ciclisme français", published 1950.
    3. "Bruno Garonzi N'est Plus", Miroir-Sprint No.188, 16 January 1950.