Giuseppe Olmo
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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]
As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the late 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Template:Not a typo).[3] The Olmo Template:Not a typo 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 Script error: No such module "Lang". 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
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- 1932
- Template:Gold1, 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
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- 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
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External links
- Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net Template:In lang
- Palmarès by velo-club.net Template:In lang
- company website
- Olmo - Argentina
- company website
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- 1911 births
- 1992 deaths
- Cyclists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Italian male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Sportspeople from the Province of Savona
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from Liguria
- Italian cycle designers
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen