# Gaetano Belloni

Gaetano Belloni (26 August 1892 – 9 January 1980) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his overall win in the 1920 Giro d'Italia, the two victories in Milan–San Remo (1917 and 1920), and the three victories in the Giro di Lombardia (1915, 1918 and 1928).
Belloni was born at Pizzighettone, near Cremona, and made his debut in the road cycling world in the wake of his elder brother Amleto. As an amateur, in 1914 he won the "Small" Giro di Lombardia and the Coppa del Re, as well as the Italian championship.
Having avoided to be called to the front, Belloni won surprisingly, the overall Giro di Lombardia in 1915 (a feat he repeated in 1918 and 1928) and the Milan–San Remo of 1917.
In 1920 he obtained his greatest victory, the Giro d'Italia. In the 1920s Belloni constantly rivalled with his friend Costante Girardengo, being almost always defeated and gaining for this reason the nickname of "Eterno secondo" ("Eternal second").
He won a total of 43 races as a professional, including 12 stages at Giro d'Italia.

## Major results
### 1914

    1st National Road Championships, Road Race (Amateurs)
    1st Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
    1st Coppa del Re

### 1915

    1st Giro di Lombardia

### 1916

    1st Milano–Bellagio–Varese

### 1917

    1st Overall Giro della Provincia Milano (with Alfredo Sivocci)
       1st Stage 1
    1st Milan–San Remo
    1st Milano–Bellagio–Varese
    2nd Milano–La Spezia

### 1918

    1st Giro di Lombardia
    1st Milano–Modena
    1st Milano–Torino
    1st Torino-Arquata (with Lauro Bordin, Costante Girardengo & Luigi-Natale Lucotti)
    2nd Milan–San Remo
    3rd Milano–Bellagio–Varese

### 1919

    2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 5
    2nd Overall Roma–Trento–Trieste
    2nd Giro di Lombardia
    2nd Giro del Piemonte
    2nd Roma–Trente–Trieste
    3rd Giro della Provincia Milano

### 1920

    1st Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 2, 3, 7 & 8
    1st Overall Giro della Provincia Milano (with Giuseppe Azzini)
       1st Stage 1
    1st Milan–San Remo
    2nd National Road Championships, Road Race
    2nd Milano–Torino
    3rd Giro di Lombardia
    3rd Giro del Piemonte

### 1921

    1st Overall Giro della Provincia Milano
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 5, 9 & 10
    1st Milano–Modena
    2nd Giro di Lombardia
    2nd Roma–Napoli–Roma
    8th Milan–San Remo

### 1922

    1st Overall Giro della Provincia Milano (with Giovanni Brunero)
       1st Stage 1
    1st Six Days of New York City
    1st Stages 1 & 3 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Giro della Romagna
    2nd Tour du lac Léman

### 1923

    2nd Milan–San Remo
    2nd Milano–Torino

### 1924

    2nd Milan–San Remo
    2nd Giro del Veneto
    2nd Giro dell'Emilia

### 1925

    1st Giro del Piemonte
    1st Milano–Modena
    1st Stages 5 & 12 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Roma–Napoli–Roma
    3rd National Road Championships, Road Race

### 1926

    1st Grosser Strassenpreis von Hannover
    1st Rund um die Hainleite
    1st Groβer Sachsenpreis
    2nd Berlin–Cottbus–Berlin
    2nd Rund um Frankfurt
    2nd Six Days of New York City
    3rd Rund um Köln
    4th Milan–San Remo

### 1927

    1st Rund um Köln
    2nd Quer durch Thüringen
    2nd Thüringen-Rundfahrt
    2nd Berlin–Cottbus–Berlin
    3rd Stuttgart Criterium

### 1928

    1st Giro di Lombardia
    2nd Six Days of New York City
    3rd Groβer Sachsenpreis

### 1929

    1st Roma–Napoli–Roma
    1st Six Days of Chicago
    1st Stage 1 Giro d'Italia
    3rd Six Days of New York City

### 1930

    1st Six Days of New York City

### 1935

    3rd Six Days of New York City

### Results timelines

| Grand Tour | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | DNF | — | DNF | 4 | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Monument | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 8 | — | 2 | 2 | — | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 13 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |