Bruno Mealli

Bruno Mealli
	Mealli c. 1966
Personal information
Born	20 November 1937; Loro Ciuffenna, Italy
Died	3 August 2023 (aged 85)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1961	Bianchi
1962	Ignis–Moschettieri
1963	Cynar–Frejus
1964–1966	Bianchi
1967	Salamini–Luxor TV
1968	Faema
1969	Scic
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 3 individual stages (1962, 1964, 1965) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1963) Giro del Lazio (1961, 1964) Gran Premio Città di Camaiore (1966) Giro dell'Emilia (1962) Giro della Romagna (1963, 1967)

Bruno Mealli (20 November 1937 – 3 August 2023) was an Italian professional road cyclist. He competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia.

Career

When an amateur, Mealli won several races, notably the Giro del Casentino.^[1] A professional rider from 1961 to 1969, during his career he competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia,^[2] winning three stages and wearing the pink jersey five times.^[1] He won the Italian National title in 1963, and he was selected in the Italian team for the 1964 and 1965 UCI Road World Championships.^[1] After his retirement, he worked as a clerk and later as a manager for Poste Italiane.^[3] He died on 3 August 2023, at the age of 85.^[4]

Major results

1959: 1st Giro del Casentino
1960: 3rd Gran Premio della Liberazione
1961: 1st Giro del Lazio; 2nd Giro del Veneto
1962: 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato; 1st Giro dell'Emilia; 1st Stage 8 Volta a Catalunya; 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia; 2nd Trofeo Matteotti; 9th Milan–San Remo
1963: 1st Road race, National Road Championships; 1st Giro della Romagna; 2nd Coppa Sabatini
1964: 1st Giro del Lazio; 1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg; 1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia; 2nd Coppa Agostoni
1965: 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
1966: 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
1967: 1st Giro della Romagna; 2nd Milano–Vignola; 3rd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
1968: 3rd Coppa Agostoni

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gialanella, Luca (3 August 2023). "Addio a Mealli, vinse due Giri del Lazio. In maglia rosa nel 1965". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ "Bruno Mealli". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ Redazione (12 January 2022). "Bruno Mealli ciclista toscano, la storia". Ciclonews (in Italian). Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ "Addio a Bruno Mealli: aveva 85 anni, era il più vecchio campione italiano". Bicisport (in Italian). 3 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.

External links

Bruno Mealli at Cycling Archives (archived)

This biographical article related to an Italian cycling person born in the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[bio-1] Gialanella, Luca (3 August 2023). "Addio a Mealli, vinse due Giri del Lazio. In maglia rosa nel 1965". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 10 August 2023.

[2] "Bruno Mealli". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

[3] Redazione (12 January 2022). "Bruno Mealli ciclista toscano, la storia". Ciclonews (in Italian). Retrieved 10 August 2023.

[4] "Addio a Bruno Mealli: aveva 85 anni, era il più vecchio campione italiano". Bicisport (in Italian). 3 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e Italian National Road Race Champion (men)
1880–1899	Giuseppe Loretz (1885) Geo Davidson (1886) Gilberto Marley (1887–1889) Carlo Braida (1890) Ambrogio Robecchi (1891) Luigi Cantu (1892) Giuseppe Moreschi (1893) Giovanni Da Montelatico (1896)
1900–1919	Giovanni Cuniolo (1906–1908) Dario Beni (1909) Emilio Petiva (1910) Dario Beni (1911) Not attributed (1912) Costante Girardengo (1913–1914, 1919)
1920–1939	Costante Girardengo (1920–1925) Alfredo Binda (1926–1929) Learco Guerra (1930–1934) Gino Bartali (1935) Giuseppe Olmo (1936) Gino Bartali (1937) Olimpio Bizzi (1938) Mario Vicini (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Adolfo Leoni (1941) Fausto Coppi (1942) Mario Ricci (1943) Severino Canavesi (1945) Aldo Ronconi (1946) Fausto Coppi (1947) Vito Ortelli (1948) Fausto Coppi (1949) Antonio Bevilacqua (1950) Fiorenzo Magni (1951) Gino Bartali (1952) Fiorenzo Magni (1953–1954) Fausto Coppi (1955) Giorgio Albani (1956) Ercole Baldini (1957–1958) Diego Ronchini (1959)
1960–1979	Nino Defilippis (1960) Arturo Sabbadin (1961) Nino Defilippis (1962) Bruno Mealli (1963) Guido De Rosso (1964) Michele Dancelli (1965–1966) Franco Balmamion (1967) Felice Gimondi (1968) Vittorio Adorni (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970–1971) Felice Gimondi (1972) Enrico Paolini (1973–1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Franco Bitossi (1976) Enrico Paolini (1977) Pierino Gavazzi (1978) Francesco Moser (1979)
1980–1999	Giuseppe Saronni (1980) Francesco Moser (1981) Pierino Gavazzi (1982) Moreno Argentin (1983) Vittorio Algeri (1984) Claudio Corti (1985–1986) Bruno Leali (1987) Pierino Gavazzi (1988) Moreno Argentin (1989) Giorgio Furlan (1990) Gianni Bugno (1991) Marco Giovannetti (1992) Massimo Podenzana (1993–1994) Gianni Bugno (1995) Mario Cipollini (1996) Gianni Faresin (1997) Andrea Tafi (1998) Salvatore Commesso (1999)
2000–2019	Michele Bartoli (2000) Daniele Nardello (2001) Salvatore Commesso (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Cristian Moreni (2004) Enrico Gasparotto (2005) Paolo Bettini (2006) Giovanni Visconti (2007) Filippo Simeoni (2008) Filippo Pozzato (2009) Giovanni Visconti (2010–2011) Franco Pellizotti (2012) Ivan Santaromita (2013) Vincenzo Nibali (2014–2015) Giacomo Nizzolo (2016) Fabio Aru (2017) Elia Viviani (2018) Davide Formolo (2019)
2020–2039	Giacomo Nizzolo (2020) Sonny Colbrelli (2021) Filippo Zana (2022) Simone Velasco (2023) Alberto Bettiol (2024)