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Attilio Pavesi

1910 - 2011

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Attilio Pavesi (1 October 1910 – 2 August 2011) was an Italian cyclist who won the individual and team road races at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The same year he placed second in the Giro di Sicilia, and in 1933–35 rode as professional, but with no success. Pavesi was the 11th child in an affluent family in Caorso, Emilia-Romagna. At the beginning of World War II he immigrated to San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he continued racing, ran his bike shop, and organized cycling races. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Attilio Pavesi is the 74th most popular cyclist (up from 85th in 2019), the 2,795th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,014th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Attilio Pavesi ranks 74 out of 1,613Before him are Alberto Contador, Tony Rominger, Gösta Pettersson, José Manuel Fuente, Italo De Zan, and Maurice De Waele. After him are Bernard Thévenet, Jean Stablinski, Julio Jiménez, Adri van der Poel, Bjarne Riis, and Ferdinando Terruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Attilio Pavesi ranks 163Before him are Helmut Kunz, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, José Lezama Lima, Kelly Johnson, and Cyril Cusack. After him are Ernst Schäfer, Hazi Aslanov, Jean Servais, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Qian Zhongshu, and Stanislaus Kobierski. Among people deceased in 2011, Attilio Pavesi ranks 173Before him are Võ Chí Công, Sándor Képíró, Susannah York, Nirmala Srivastava, Gerry Rafferty, and Clarence Clemons. After him are Ingvar Wixell, Mutassim Gaddafi, Bernd Eichinger, Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Sven Tumba, and María Mercader.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Attilio Pavesi ranks 2,795 out of 5,161Before him are Eusebio Kino (1645), Festus (390), Giuseppe Abbati (1836), Salvatore Sciarrino (1947), Vincenzo Camuccini (1771), and Lucius Flavius Silva (40). After him are Giorgio Biandrata (1515), Leonora Dori (1568), Mario Camerini (1895), Vespasiano I Gonzaga (1531), Gabry Ponte (1973), and Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823).

Among CYCLISTS In Italy

Among cyclists born in Italy, Attilio Pavesi ranks 15Before him are Luigi Ganna (1883), Gastone Nencini (1930), Ercole Baldini (1933), Fiorenzo Magni (1920), Costante Girardengo (1893), and Italo De Zan (1925). After him are Enzo Sacchi (1926), Mario Zanin (1940), Giovanni Brunero (1895), Vittorio Adorni (1937), Pino Cerami (1922), and Mario Cipollini (1967).