Pierino Favalli

Pierino Favalli was an Italian road cyclist who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He had been a top Italian amateur, winning 23 times in 1933, and in 1934 he won the Buttafochi Cup and the Italian Road Championships. In 1936 he placed third at the World Championship after the Olympics, and then turned professional with Legnano, finishing 12th at the 1936 Giro di Lombardia.

With Legnano Favalli rode as a lieutenant for Gino Bartali and had some successes in the later 1930s and early 1940s, winning the San Geo Cup and Bolzano Trophy in 1937, the 1941 Milano-Sanremo Milano-Torino, a stage at the Giro d’Italia 1940, the 1938 Giro di Romagna, the Giro del Veneto and the Giro di Campania in 1942, and the Giro of the province of Milano in 1938-40 and 1942. As with all cyclists, his career was interrupted by World War II. Favalli resumed cycling after the war but left the pro peloton in 1946.