Description
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
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.
