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Libero Ferrario (Parabiago, 24 June 1901 – Parabiago, 14 February 1930) was an Italian road cyclist.

He was the first Italian cyclist who won the world championship on road in 1923.

Big keen about sports since his childhood and his teenage, he was bethought by his follow citizens as a young athletic boy and we have some of his semi-mythical enterprises like when he, as he was only 17, was able to tame an enraged ox which was scaring the citizens in Parabiago’s roads, which was his native city, with his own hads.

Later he bacame fond of cycling and during the enlistment (1919-1920), he won the military championship; his first victories were two edition of Coppa Bernocchi in Legnano (1922 and 1923).

On 25th august 1923, he partecipated and won in Zurich, on one Glory, the trial in line of Beginner world Championship. The consecutive year he ran in Paris for another World Championship and he placed himself at the 4th place for the road trial, then in august he won the Tre Valli Varesine.

He died in 1930 because of tuberculosis, when he was almost 29.

He is still remembered today in Parabiago: the council stadium has his name; in the cemetery on his tomb there is a bronze scolpture that figures his bust; in the roads of the city once a year there is a Memorial cycling race and there is a flying finish line of the Coppa Bernocchi wich is entitled for him.

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