Mario Vicini Explained

Mario Vicini
Full Name:Mario Vicini
Nickname:Gaibera
Birth Date:1913 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Cesena, Italy
Death Place:Cesena, Italy
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia

3 individual stages (1938, 1940)One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1939)

Mario Vicini (21 February 1913 — 6 December 1995) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Vicini won the 1939 Italian road race championship, as well as the Giro del Lazio and the Giro di Toscana. He rode the Tour de France twice, finishing second (in 1937) and sixth (in 1938). In the Giro d'Italia, Vicini won three stages, and finished third in 1939.He later went on to build racing bicycles, simply named Vicini, using top-of-the-line components. His frame and fork sets are recognizable by the Vicini name stamped into the top end of the seat stay flutes and the V in the top of each side of the fork crown.

Palmarès

1935
  • 1st Giro delle Province Romagnole
  • 1st Gran Premio di Camaiore
    1936
  • 1st Giro delle Quattro Province
    1937
  • 2nd Overall Tour de France
    1938
  • 1st Giro di Toscana
  • 1st Stage 2 Giro d'Italia
  • 6th Overall Tour de France
    1939
  • 1st Giro del Lazio
  • 1st Italian National Road Race Championship
  • 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
    1940
  • 1st Coppa Marin
  • 4th Overall Giro d'Italia
  • 1st Stages 15 & 16
    1947
  • 7th Overall Giro d'Italia
    1953
  • 1st Coppa Signorin