Ercole Baldini
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Baldini in 1956
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| Full name | Ercole Baldini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 1933 Villanova di Forlì, Italy |
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1957–1958 | Legnano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1962 | Ignis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Cynar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 | Salvarani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ercole Baldini (born 26 January 1933) is a retired Italian cyclist. As an amateur he won an Olympic gold medal in the road race and the world title in the individual pursuit on track, both in 1956.[1] Next year he turned professional, and in 1958 won the world title in the road race and the Giro d'Italia. He continued competing on track and won bronze medals in the individual pursuit at the world championships of 1960 and 1964.[2]
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Biography
Baldini was born at Villanova di Forlì (Emilia-Romagna).[1] At 21 he set the hour record for amateurs, with 44.870 km, gaining the nickname of Forlì train. His best year was 1956, in which he won a gold medal in the road race at the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, and, in September, stripped Jacques Anquetil of the hour record, riding 46.394 km at the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan.[1]
In 1957 he become professional and won six important races, including the Trofeo Baracchi alongside Fausto Coppi, and became Italian champion. In 1958 Baldini won the Giro d'Italia,[1] beating Charly Gaul on the latter's favourite terrain, climbing. He was again Italian champion and also won the World Cycling Championship.[2]
Baldini finished 6th in the 1959 Tour de France. His career ended in 1964 after surgery to a leg.[1]
Major victories
Giro d'Italia (1958)- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.›
World Road Cycling Championships (1958) 
Italian National Road Race Championship (1957, 1958)[1]- 1956 Summer Olympics, Melbourne - Individual Road Race (1956)[1]
- Giro di Romagna (1957)[1]
- Giro dell'Emilia (1959)
- Giro del Lazio (1957)
- Trofeo Matteotti (1958)
- Grand Prix des Nations (time trial) (1960)[1]
- Coppa Placci (1963)
- Hour record (46,393 km - Milan, velodromo Vigorelli) (1956)
- 1 stage victory Tour de France
- 5 stage victories Giro d'Italia, 9 days in pink jersey
Grand Tours overall classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 |
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3 | 1 | 17 | 41 | WD | 7 | 26 | WD |
 Tour |
- | - | 6 | 33 | - | 8 | - | WD |
 Vuelta |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
WD = Withdrew DSQ = Disqualified
References
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| Preceded by | UCI hour record (46.394 km) 19 September 1956-18 September 1957 |
Succeeded by Roger Rivière |
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- 1933 births
- Living people
- Italian male cyclists
- Giro d'Italia winners
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Italian Tour de France stage winners
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Cyclists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- People from the Province of Forlì-Cesena
- People from Forlì
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Tour de France cyclists
- Giro d'Italia cyclists
- Sportspeople from Emilia-Romagna
