Arigo Padovan

Arigo Padovan, whose English Wikipedia article spells his first name Arrigo, was an Italian professional road bicycle racer, born on 16 June 1927 and died on 4 January 2025 at the age of 97. He won stages in both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the two Grand Tours most closely tied to the racing cultures of France and Italy. A stage win in a Grand Tour is a notable achievement because each race is decided over several weeks and every daily stage has its own winner, and winning in both races marks a rider who could do well in different kinds of stage. The article on him is brief and gives his dates, nationality and profession and these stage wins, and links to the Cycling Archives and the official Tour de France results. He is catalogued here as an Italian road cyclist of the postwar era.