Learco Guerra

Learco Guerra
Personal information

Full name	Learco Guerra
Nickname	Human Locomotive
Born	(1902-10-14)October 14, 1902 Bagnolo San Vito, Italy
Died	February 7, 1963(1963-02-07) (aged 60) Milan, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1928–1935	Maino
1936–1939	Legnano
1940	Dei/Legnano
1941–1944	Dei
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 7 individual stages (1930, 1933) Giro d'Italia General Classification (1934) 31 individual stages (1930-1937) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championship (1931) National Road Race Championship (1930-1934) Milan–San Remo (1933) Giro di Lombardia (1934)

Learco Guerra
Medal record

Competitor for Italy
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
	1931 Copenhagen	Elite Men's Road Race
	1930 Liège	Elite Men's Road Race
	1934 Leipzig	Elite Men's Road Race

Learco Guerra (October 14, 1902 - February 7, 1963) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1934 Giro d'Italia.

Laearco Guerra, born in San Nicolò Po, a frazione of Bagnolo San Vito in Lombardy, gained the nickname of "Human Locomotive" for his enduring quality in plain stages. After mediocre attempts to play football, Guerra became a professional cyclist in 1928, at 26. The following year he became Italian champion, racing as an independent or semi-professional.

In 1930 he won his first Italian National Road Race Championships, the first of five straight wins. That same year he came second in the Tour de France after Italy's leader, Alfredo Binda, proved in poor form. The race was won by the Frenchman, André Leducq. In 1931 Guerra won four stages of the Giro d'Italia but not the final victory. The same year he won the world cycling championship.

In 1933 Guerra was again second in the Tour de France, and he won the Milan–San Remo. In 1934 came his greatest success, 10 stages of the Giro d'Italia and the general classification. He was also second in the world championship.

Guerra set a record of victories in a single year that was beaten only in the 1970s. His fame was exploited by the Fascist government, which profited from his heroic status.

After retirement, he worked as a team manager for riders such as Hugo Koblet and Charly Gaul.

Affected by Parkinson's disease, he died in Milan in 1963.

Palmarès

1929

Coppa Diamante

Roncoferraro

Vignola-Modena

1930

Circuito Monte Berici

Coppa Caivano

Giro d'Italia:

9th place overall classification

Winner stage 8 and 11

Italian National Road Race Championships

Torino

Tour de France:

2nd place overall classification

Wearing yellow jersey for seven days

Winner stages 2, 13 and 15

Predappio-Roma

1931

Coppa de la Victoria

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stages 1, 2, 7 and 8

Giro della Provincia Di Reggio Calabria

Milano

UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Italian National Road Race Championships

1932

Giro d'Italia:

4th place overall classification

Winner stages 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 13

Giro di Campania

Giro di Toscana

Italian National Road Race Championships

Predappio-Roma

1933

Bologna

Circuito Belfiore

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stages 1, 3 and 5

Milan–San Remo

Milano

Italian National Road Race Championships

Tour de France:

2nd place overall classification

Winner stages 2, 6, 7 and 18

1934

Firenze

Giro d'Italia:

Winner overall classification

Winner stages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14

Giro del Piemonte

Lugano

Milano-Modena

Italian National Road Race Championships

Pavia

Giro di Campania

Azencriterium Milano

GP Valle Scrivia

Roma-Napoli-Roma

Giro di Lombardia

Giro della provincia Milano

1935

Giro d'Italia:

4th place overall classification

Winner stages 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

Giro della Romagna

Six days of Antwerp (with Adolphe van Nevele)

Giro di Campania

Milan-Modena

Giro della Provincia Milano (with Fabio Battesini)

1936

Giro della Provincia Milano (with Gino Bartali)

1937

Circuito Cuneo

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stage 9

Lugano

Milano

1940

Circuito de Casalecchio di Reno

Italy national track stayer championship

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937
Giro	-	-	4	WD	1	WD	WD	WD
Tour	2	-	WD	2	-	-	-	-
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew

External links

Learco Guerra profile at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Learco Guerra

UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race

1927: Binda
1928–29: Ronsse
1930: Binda
1931: Guerra
1932: Binda
1933: Speicher
1934: Kaers
1935: Aerts
1936: Magne
1937: Meulenberg
1938: Kint
1946: Knecht
1947: Middelkamp
1948: Schotte
1949: Van Steenbergen
1950: Schotte
1951: Kübler
1952: Müller
1953: Coppi
1954: Bobet
1955: Ockers
1956–57: Van Steenbergen
1958: Baldini
1959: Darrigade
1960–61: Van Looy
1962: Stablinski
1963: Beheyt
1964: Janssen
1965: Simpson
1966: Altig
1967: E. Merckx
1968: Adorni
1969: Ottenbros
1970: Monseré
1971: E. Merckx
1972: M. Basso
1973: Gimondi
1974: E. Merckx
1975: Kuiper
1976: Maertens
1977: F. Moser
1978: Knetemann
1979: Raas
1980: B. Hinault
1981: Maertens
1982: Saronni
1983: LeMond
1984: Criquielion
1985: Zoetemelk
1986: Argentin
1987: S. Roche
1988: Fondriest
1989: LeMond
1990: Dhaenens
1991: Bugno–92: Bugno
1993: Armstrong
1994: Leblanc
1995: Olano
1996: Museeuw
1997: Brochard
1998: Camenzind
1999: Freire
2000: Vainšteins
2001: Freire
2002: Cipollini
2003: Astarloa
2004: Freire
2005: Boonen
2006–07: Bettini
2008: Ballan
2009: Evans
2010: Hushovd
2011: Cavendish
2012: Gilbert
2013: Costa
2014: Kwiatkowski
2015: Sagan

Giro d'Italia general classification winners

1909: Luigi Ganna 1910–11: Carlo Galetti 1912^* Team Atala (Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto, Eberardo Pavesi) 1913: Carlo Oriani 1914: Alfonso Calzolari 1915–18 World War I 1919: Costante Girardengo 1920: Gaetano Belloni 1921–22: Giovanni Brunero 1923: Costante Girardengo 1924: Giuseppe Enrici 1925: Alfredo Binda 1926: Giovanni Brunero 1927–29: Alfredo Binda 1930: Luigi Marchisio 1931: Francesco Camusso 1932: Antonio Pesenti 1933: Alfredo Binda 1934: Learco Guerra 1935: Vasco Bergamaschi 1936–37: Gino Bartali 1938–39: Giovanni Valetti 1940: Fausto Coppi 1941–45 World War II 1946: Gino Bartali 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Fiorenzo Magni 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950: Hugo Koblet 1951: Fiorenzo Magni 1952–53: Fausto Coppi 1954: Carlo Clerici 1955: Fiorenzo Magni 1956: Charly Gaul 1957: Gastone Nencini 1958: Ercole Baldini 1959: Charly Gaul 1960: Jacques Anquetil 1961: Arnaldo Pambianco 1962–63: Franco Balmamion 1964: Jacques Anquetil 1965: Vittorio Adorni 1966: Gianni Motta 1967: Felice Gimondi 1968: Eddy Merckx 1969: Felice Gimondi 1970: Eddy Merckx 1971: Gösta Pettersson 1972–74: Eddy Merckx 1975: Fausto Bertoglio 1976: Felice Gimondi 1977: Michel Pollentier 1978: Johan de Muynck 1979: Giuseppe Saronni 1980: Bernard Hinault 1981: Giovanni Battaglin 1982: Bernard Hinault 1983: Giuseppe Saronni 1984: Francesco Moser 1985: Bernard Hinault 1986: Roberto Visentini 1987: Stephen Roche 1988: Andy Hampsten 1989: Laurent Fignon 1990: Gianni Bugno 1991: Franco Chioccioli 1992–93: Miguel Indurain 1994: Evgeni Berzin 1995: Tony Rominger 1996: Pavel Tonkov 1997: Ivan Gotti 1998: Marco Pantani 1999: Ivan Gotti 2000: Stefano Garzelli 2001: Gilberto Simoni 2002: Paolo Savoldelli 2003: Gilberto Simoni 2004: Damiano Cunego 2005: Paolo Savoldelli 2006: Ivan Basso 2007: Danilo Di Luca 2008: Alberto Contador 2009: Denis Menchov 2010: Ivan Basso 2011: Michele Scarponi 2012: Ryder Hesjedal 2013: Vincenzo Nibali 2014: Nairo Quintana 2015: Alberto Contador

^*In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification

Milan–San Remo winners

1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)

1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)

1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)

1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)

1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)

2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016)

Giro di Lombardia winners

1900–1919	Giovanni Gerbi (1905) Cesare Brambilla (1906) Gustave Garrigou (1907) François Faber (1908) Giovanni Cuniolo (1909) Giovanni Micheletto (1910) Henri Pélissier (1911) Carlo Oriani (1912) Henri Pélissier (1913) Lauro Bordin (1914) Gaetano Belloni (1915) Leopoldo Torricelli (1916) Philippe Thys (1917) Gaetano Belloni (1918) Costante Girardengo (1919)

1920–1939	Henri Pélissier (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921–1922) Giovanni Brunero (1923–1924) Alfredo Binda (1925–1927) Gaetano Belloni (1928) Pietro Fossati (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Antonio Negrini (1932) Domenico Piemontesi (1933) Learco Guerra (1934) Enrico Mollo (1935) Gino Bartali (1936) Aldo Bini (1937) Cino Cinelli (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)

1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Mario Ricci (1941) Aldo Bini (1942) (1943–1944, not held) Mario Ricci (1945) Fausto Coppi (1946–1949) Renzo Soldani (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Giuseppe Minardi (1952) Bruno Landi (1953) Fausto Coppi (1954) Cleto Maule (1955) André Darrigade (1956) Diego Ronchini (1957) Nino Defilippis (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)

1960–1979	Emile Daems (1960) Vito Taccone (1961) Jo de Roo (1962–1963) Gianni Motta (1964) Tom Simpson (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Franco Bitossi (1967) Herman Van Springel (1968) Jean-Pierre Monseré (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Felice Gimondi (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Roger De Vlaeminck (1976) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1977) Francesco Moser (1978) Bernard Hinault (1979)

1980–1999	Alfons De Wolf (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) Giuseppe Saronni (1982) Sean Kelly (1983) Bernard Hinault (1984) Sean Kelly (1985) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1986) Moreno Argentin (1987) Charly Mottet (1988) Tony Rominger (1989) Gilles Delion (1990) Sean Kelly (1991) Tony Rominger (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Vladislav Bobrik (1994) Gianni Faresin (1995) Andrea Tafi (1996) Laurent Jalabert (1997) Oscar Camenzind (1998) Mirko Celestino (1999)

2000–2019	Raimondas Rumšas (2000) Danilo Di Luca (2001) Michele Bartoli (2002–2003) Damiano Cunego (2004) Paolo Bettini (2005–2006) Damiano Cunego (2007–2008) Philippe Gilbert (2009–2010) Oliver Zaugg (2011) Joaquim Rodríguez (2012–2013) Dan Martin (2014) Vincenzo Nibali (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 4315718 LCCN: n2003119157

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