Luigi Mele

{{short description|Italian cyclist (1937–2023)}}

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| name = Luigi Mele

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|9|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Calvi Risorta, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|4|14|1937|9|11|df=y}}

| death_place = Calvi Risorta, Italy

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| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

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| proyears1 = 1960

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|Carpano|1960}}

| proyears2 = 1961–1964

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Gazzola|1961}}

| proyears3 = 1966

| proteam3 = Queen Anne

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Luigi Mele (11 September 1937 – 14 April 2023) was an Italian racing cyclist.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=27939 |title=Luigi Mele |work=Cycling Archives |accessdate=3 September 2020}} He rode in the 1962 Tour de France as well as in three editions of the Giro d'Italia.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ritfiche.php?ritid=2926 |title=Tour de France 1962 |work=Cycling Archives |accessdate=3 September 2020}}{{cite web|title=Saint-Raphaël–Helyett–Hutchinson (1962)|url=http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/pelotons/equipes.php?q=4910|access-date=11 May 2017|publisher=Mémoire du cyclisme|language=French|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511050532/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/pelotons/equipes.php?q=4910|archive-date=11 May 2017|url-status=live}}

Mele died in Calvi Risorta on 14 April 2023, at the age of 85.[https://www.casertafocus.net/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55855 Addio a Luigi Mele, campione di ciclismo e di vita] {{in lang|it}}