Ottavio Bottecchia was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian to win the Tour de France. Born in 1894 in San Martino di Colle Umberto as the eighth of nine children in a poor family, he worked as a shoemaker and bricklayer, served in the Bersaglieri during the First World War and moved to France in 1919 to work as a builder. He turned professional in 1920 and joined the French Automoto team, took a stage and second place overall at the 1923 Tour de France, and won the Tour in 1924 and again in 1925. He abandoned the 1926 Tour. He was found injured and unconscious by a roadside in 1927 and died a few days later; the exact circumstances of the accident remain a mystery.
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was an Italian cyclist
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1 August 1894-15 June 1927
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He was found injured and unconscious by a roadside
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Bottecchia won the Tour again in 1925
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was an Italian cyclist
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was an Italian cyclist
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the first Italian winner of the Tour de France
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