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Full name | Antonio Bailetti | ||||||||||||
Born |
Bosco di Nanto, Italy |
29 September 1937 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||
Olympic team time trial champion (1960) 2 stages Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia |
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Medal record
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Antonio Bailetti (born 29 September 1937) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer who won a gold medal in the team time trial race at the 1960 Olympics. After that Bailetti turned professional. In 1962, he won a stage in the Tour de France and in the Giro d'Italia, after a 120 km solo escape; he repeated this achievement next year. He retired after a heavy fall in Spring 1969.