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Nine-time motorcycling world champion Carlo Ubbiali dead

Nine-time motorcycling world champion Carlo Ubbiali, who raced in the first world championship in 1949

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MILAN: Nine-time motorcycling world champion Carlo Ubbiali, who raced in the first world championship in 1949 and later dominated the 125 and 250cc categories, has died aged 90, Italian media reported on Tuesday. The third most successful Italian rider of all time, after Giacomo Agostini and Valentino Rossi, Ubbiali won six 125cc titles and three in the bigger category. He won 39 of the 74 races he entered (26 in 125cc), mostly on an Italian MV Agusta in an era before the emergence of Japanese manufacturers. Agencies