[CR]M. Del Rio? Shared the 1956 Giro d'Italia green-jersey???

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From: "aldoross4" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:57:35 -0500
Subject: [CR]M. Del Rio? Shared the 1956 Giro d'Italia green-jersey???

Looks like "Cycling Hall of Fame" has come across some confusing information about the mountains prize in the 1956 Giro d'Italia. Anyone have any magazines or books which might help clear things up? There was a rider named "Aurelio Del Rio" in the '56 Giro, riding for Ignis/Varesem, but he doesn't appear on any lists of the finishers.

Here's what appears on "cycling Hall of Fame":

SPOTLIGHT ON M. DEL RIO 12/10/2005 – M. Del Rio has missing birth and death records. The Italian rider shared the prize in the Mountains Jersey competition in the 1956 Giro d'Italia with Federico Bahamontes of Spain and Charly Gaul of Luxembourg. M. Del Rio is the last ranked rider on our All-Time list of Riders.

I've gone through my collection of periodicals, but I don't have much info on that year's Giro.

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio