Felice Gimondi

Felice Gimondi

Gimondi at the 1966 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full name	Felice Gimondi
Nickname	La Fenice (The Phoenix)[1]
Born	(1942-09-29)29 September 1942 Sedrina, Italy
Died	16 August 2019(2019-08-16) (aged 76) Giardini Naxos, Italy
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Classics
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
1965–1972	Salvarani
1973–1979	Bianchi–Campagnolo
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (1965) 7 individual stages (1965, 1967, 1969, 1975) Giro d'Italia General classification (1967, 1969, 1976) 6 individual stages (1966, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1976) Vuelta a España General classification (1968) 1 individual stage (1968) Stage races Volta a Catalunya (1972) Tour de Romandie (1969) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1973) National Road Race Championships (1968, 1972) Milan–San Remo (1974) Paris–Roubaix (1966) Giro di Lombardia (1966, 1973)
Medal record Representing  Italy Men's road bicycle racing UCI Road World Championships 1973 Barcelona Elite road race 1971 Mendrisio Elite road race 1970 Leicester Elite road race

Felice Gimondi (Italian pronunciation: [feˈliːtʃe dʒiˈmondi]; 29 September 1942 – 16 August 2019) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. With his 1968 victory at the Vuelta a España, only three years after becoming a professional cyclist, Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix", was the second cyclist (after Jacques Anquetil) to win all three Grand Tours of road cycling: Tour de France (1965, his first year as a pro), Giro d'Italia (1967, 1969 and 1976), and Vuelta a España (1968).^[2] He is one of only seven cyclists to have done so.^[3]

Gimondi also won three of the five Cycling monuments, winning the Giro di Lombardia twice, and finished on the podium of a grand tour twelve times.

He accomplished all of these major victories despite his career coinciding with that of Eddy Merckx.