Giuseppe Azzini

Giuseppe Azzini (26 March 1891 – 11 November 1925) was an Italian racing cyclist.^[1] He won two stages of the 1913 Giro d'Italia and finished third overall.^[1]

Giuseppe Azzini

Giuseppe Azzini in 1911
Personal information
Born	(1891-03-26)26 March 1891 Gazzuolo, Italy
Died	11 November 1925(1925-11-11) (aged 34) Ospedaletti, Italy
Team information
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1910–1912	Legnano
1913	Otav
1914–1915	Bianchi–Dei
1919	Legnano–Pirelli
1920	Bianchi
1921	Stucchi–Pirelli
1922–1924	Maino–Bergougnan
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 4 individual stages (1913, 1914) One-day races and Classics Milano-Torino (1913) National Road Race Championships (1912)

Career

Azzini's best race of his career was the 1913 Giro d'Italia. The following year he tried to repeat his performance. He achieved two stage wins in a row and a day in the race lead. In the final kilometres of the sixth stage Azzini disappeared. The organisers sent search parties out looking for the following day and he was found sleeping in a barn. That was his race over.^[2] 90 percent of the riders who started the Giro did not finish.^[3]

Major results

Sources:^[1][4][5]

1911

1st Overall Giro dell'Umbria

1st Amateur Road race championship

1912 (1 Pro win)

1st National road race championship

1913 (3)

1st Milano-Torino

3rd Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 4 & 5

Held lead after stage 7

4th Giro della Romagna

1914 (2)

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 4 & 5

Held lead after stage 5

2nd Giro di Lombardia

2nd Milano-Torino

3rd National road race championship

8th Giro dell'Emilia

1915

5th Milan–San Remo

1918

6th Giro di Lombardia

1919

2nd Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma

3rd Milano-Torino

3rd National road race championship

4th Milan–San Remo

1920 (1)

1st Giro della Provincia Milano

2nd Milano–Modena

4th Milan–San Remo

4th Giro di Lombardia

4th National road race championship

8th Paris–Roubaix

1921 (1)

1st Giro della Provincia Milano

2nd Genoa–Nice

2nd Giro del Piemonte

3rd Milan–San Remo

3rd Nice - Mont Agel

4th Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma

5th Milano-Torino

1922

2nd Giro di Lombardia

2nd Giro della Provincia Milano

5th Giro del Piemonte

6th Giro della Romagna

1923

2nd Overall Roma–Napoli–Roma

3rd Milan–San Remo

5th Giro di Toscana

1924

8th Giro del Veneto

General classification results timeline

Sources:^[6][7]

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922
Vuelta a España	Race did not exist
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	3	DNF	Races not held due to World War I				DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—					—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish