Giuseppe Olmo

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**Giuseppe Olmo**
Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Olmo
Date of birth	November 22, 1911(1911-11-22)
Date of death	March 5, 1992 (aged 80)
Country	Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1933–1940 1940–1942	Bianchi Dei
Major wins
Olympic Team road race (1932) Milan-Sanremo (1935, 1938) Giro d'Italia, 20 stages Italy National Road Race Championship (1936)
Infobox last updated on:
November 5, 2007

Giuseppe Olmo (November 22, 1911 – March 5, 1992) was an Italian road bicycle racer, who once held the word record for an hour's run on a bicycle, with 45.090km, until it was beaten in 1936.^[1]. He was born in Celle Ligure.

As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Biciclette).^[2]

[edit] Major results

Medal record
Competitor for Italy
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold	1932 Los Angeles	Team road race

1932

, Olympic Team road race (with Attilio Pavesi and Guglielmo Segato)

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-Sanremo

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-Sanremo

[edit] References

^ "Claims World Bike Record", The New York Times, 1936-10-15.
^ Christopher Pepe. italian bicycle manufacturers. virtualitalia.com.

[edit] External links

Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (French)
Palmarès by velo-club.net (French)
company website

Persondata
NAME	Olmo, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1911-11-22
PLACE OF BIRTH	Celle Ligure, Italy
DATE OF DEATH	1992-03-05
PLACE OF DEATH	Milan, Italy