Charly Gaul, 72, a former Tour de France champion and two-time Giro d’Italia winner
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Charly Gaul, 72, a former Tour de France champion and two-time Giro d’Italia winner, has died, it was reported on the Tour’s website Tuesday. No cause of death was given.
Known as the “Angel of the Mountains,” Gaul was the first non-Italian to win the Giro, in 1956 and ’59. Winner of the Tour de France in 1958, he was the strongest mountain climber of the 1950s and finished third in the Tour in 1955 and 1961.
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