Giuseppe Olmo (22 November 1911 – 5 March 1992) was an Italian road bicycle racer. He competed at the 1932 Olympics and won a gold medal in the team road race, placing fourth individually. In October 1935 he set a new hour record at 45.090 km.[1][2]
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| Full name | Giuseppe Olmo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 1911 Celle Ligure, Kingdom of Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 March 1992 (aged 80) Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1933–1940 | Bianchi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940–1942 | Dei | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Team road race (1932) Milan-Sanremo (1935, 1938) Giro d'Italia, 20 stages National Road Race Championship (1936) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the late 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Biciclette).[3] The Olmo Biciclette manufacturing center was set up in his home town of Celle Ligure Italy in 1938,[4] where the company continues to manufacture their bicycles today.
Later in his life, Giuseppe (Often called "Gepin" for short) came to be known as a successful entrepreneur and between the 1940s and 1970s he expanded his company into several manufacturing industries. These individual businesses are all managed under the Olmo Group today.[5] Olmo la Biciclissima or Giuseppe Olmo spa, as the bicycle manufacture goes by today. They produced some very high quality bicycles often comparative quality to the great Colnago. Today they produce many high quality race bicycles, as well as mountain and city bicycles of ranging quality.
Major results
edit- 1932
, Olympic Team road race (with Attilio Pavesi and Guglielmo Segato)[1]- 1st, Milano–Torino
- 1933
- 1st, Stages 4 and 12, Giro d'Italia
- 1934
- 4th, Giro d'Italia
- 1st, Stages 13, 16 and 17
- 1935
- 1st, Milan–San Remo
- 3rd, Giro d'Italia
- 1st, Stages 5, 13, 17 and 18
- 1936
Italy National Road Race Championship- 1st, Giro dell'Emilia
- 2nd, Giro d'Italia
- 1st, Stages 1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15b, 16, 17a and 19
- 1937
- 1st, Stage 6, Giro d'Italia
- 1938
- 1st, Milan–San Remo
References
edit- ^ a b "Giuseppe Olmo Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ^ "Claims World Bike Record". The New York Times. 15 October 1936.
- ^ Christopher Pepe. "italian bicycle manufacturers". virtualitalia.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
- ^ "History of Olmo". olmo.it.
- ^ "Olmo Group's History". olmo-group.com. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011.
External links
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- Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (in French)
- Palmarès by velo-club.net (in French)
- company website
- Olmo - Argentina
- company website