Gino Bartali will receive the title "Righteous Among the Nations.

ITALIAN CYCLING JOURNAL: Gino Bartali: "Righteous Among the Nations" Title
Gino Bartali will receive the title "Righteous Among the Nations". The story from the Museum of History of Polish Jews (dated November 5, 2010):

"Gino Bartali, two-time winner of Tour de France and triple winner of Giro d’Italia will be the first world-class sportsman posthumously honored by Yad Vashem with the title “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Second World War.

Gino Bartali will receive his tree in the Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem – this gesture is a way of honoring the fact that between 1943 and 1944 he saved from deportation hundreds of Jews from Umbria and his home Tuscany.

The famous cyclist, deceased in 2000, will be the 485th Italian honored with the title “Righteous Among the Nations”.