Luigi Ganna

Luigi Ganna
	Luigi Ganna, posing in a studio in Varese, Kingdom of Italy, 18 June 1914
Personal information
Full name	Luigi Ganna
Born	1 December 1883; Induno Olona, Kingdom of Italy
Died	2 October 1957 (aged 73); Varese, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1904	Individual
1905	Rudge Whitwort
1906	Bianchi/Rudge Whitwort
1907	Turkheimer
1908	Alycon/Atala
1909–1911	Atala
1912	Atala/Ganna
1913–1915	Ganna
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia General classification (1909) 6 individual stages (1909, 1910) One-day races and Classics Milan–San Remo (1909) Giro dell'Emilia (1910)

Luigi Ganna (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1957) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. He was the overall winner of the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909, as well as the first Italian winner of the classic Milan–San Remo earlier that year. Further highlights in his career were his fifth place in the 1908 Tour de France and several podium places in Italian classic races.^[1] In 1908, he set a new Italian hour record, which he held for six years.

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He was born in Induno Olona, near Varese, in Lombardy. Before becoming a professional cyclist, he worked as a bricklayer, commuting up to 100 km to work by bike.^[1]

In 1912, he started a bike brand named Ganna which was still around in 2012.^[2]^[3] In 1913, he started the Ganna Cycling team where he rode for the final three years of his career.^[4] His company sponsored the team until 1953 when they could no longer meet obligations and Nivea–Fuchs took over.^[5]

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