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Updated 10.27.2011
Founded by the great
Professional -1912-1936- champion Costante
Girardengo
(1893-1978)
and his two sons
Luciano and Ettore in Alessandria, Novi Ligure, Italy.
The assembly of
Girardengo
bicycles was moved to the prison of Alessandria,
Novi Ligure in the
mid-1960s. |
Girardengo,
Constante
(1893- 1978)
He was the first rider to be declared a
"Campionissimo," or "Champion of
champions."
He
was Italian road champion a record nine
times in
a row. But for the
intervention of
World War I,
when no national championship
was held in Italy from 1915 to
1918, the record
might have been even greater.
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Constante
Girardengo's Palmarès
include:
1913
Italian Road Championship
1914 Italian Road Championship; Milano-Torino
1915 Milano-Torino
1918 Milano-San Remo
1919 Giro del Piemonte; Giro d'Italia; Italian
Road Championship; Milano-Torino; Giro di Lombardia
1920 Giro del Piemonte; Italian Road
Championship; Milano-Torino
1921 Italian Road Championship; Milano-San Remo; Giro di Lombardia
1922
Italian Road Championship; Giro di Lombardia
1923 Italian Road Championship; Milano-San Remo; Milano-Torino
1924 Giro del Piemonte; Giro d'Italia; Italian Road Championship
1925 Italian Road Championship; Milano-San Remo
1926 Milano-San Remo
1927 Milano-San Remo
Chuck Schmidt |
