Results: Italian Championship for Ex-Professionals

Daniele Nardello won the overall classification but 90 year old ex-professional Franceso Prina won the hearts of the crowd in the 30km race in Cittiglio (VA). Prina won his first national championship jersey, in 1939, in cyclocross. He also raced on the road, wearing the pink jersey once, and racing on the track.


The other tricolor jersey winners were Angelo Tosi (M2 category), Walter Santeroni (M3), Bruno Colombo (M4) and Francesco Lucchesi (M5), born 1931.


Photos: Daniele Nardello, center, with the other jersey winners (I believe that is Prina to the far right in the black & white sleeve jersey); 90 year old Francesco Prina; Gianni Bugno


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Campionato Italiano Ex-Professionisti

On Sunday, November 1st, the Italian Championship for Ex-Professionals will be held in Cittiglio (VA). The start will be in front of the Afredo Binda museum on via Marconi at 1500. The race will be criterium style with 17 laps for a total of 30 km. It should be great fun for the spectators.


Four tricolor jerseys will be awarded in 4 age groups. Among the ex-professionals racing (birth year in parenthesis): Francesco Moser (1951), Gianni Bugno (1964), Claudio Chiappucci (1963), Stefano Zanini (1969), Daniele Nardello (1972), Danilo Gioia (1966), Mauro Vigna (1938) , Carlo Rancati (1940), Ennio Vanotti (1955), Patrizio Gambirasio (1961), Renato Rota (1946), Mario Bertazoli (1943), Marco Dalla Vedova (1972), Germano Barale (1936), Florindo Barale (1968), Enrico Guadrini (1945), Valerio Tebaldi (1965), Nicola Loda (1971), Damiano Capodivento (1943), Francesco Prina (1919), Pasquale Pugliese (1952), Imerio Massignan (1937), Luigi Zaimbro (1936), Giulio Ricciardi, Piero Coppi, Cristiano Frattini (1973), Mario Lanzafame (1949), Marcello Bergamo (1946).


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