Antonio Bevilacqua
Antonio "Toni" Bevilacqua (born October 22, 1918 in Santa Maria di Sala , † March 29, 1972 in Mestre ) was an Italian cyclist and two-time world champion.
Athletic career
Antonio Bevilacqua was one of the most successful cyclists in Italy in the 1940s and 1950s , along with Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi ; At the same time, it was one of the most versatile, on the train and on the road. As an amateur, he was a member of the renowned VC Bassano club . His first big success was a second place in 1942 at Milan-Sanremo . In several years he took top places in stages of the Giro d'Italia . In 1950 he became Italian road champion; in the same year he won the pair time trial Trofeo Baracchi with Fiorenzo Magni in front of Fausto Coppi and his brother Serse and the Trittico Lombardo . 1951 Antonio Bevilacqua was third in the world championship on the road; in the same year he won Paris – Roubaix and the Giro del Veneto . In 1952 he was the winner of Milan-Vignola .
Twice, in 1950 and 1951, Bevilacqua was world champion in the track pursuit, in 1947 and 1952 he finished second and in 1948 third. He was also the Italian champion several times in this discipline. He also took part in eight six-day races and finished second in 1950 with Alvaro Giorgetti in New York . In 1955 Bevilacqua ended his cycling career. In 1972 he was killed in a car accident.
Honors
In Cesiomaggiore , the local bicycle museum was named after Toni Bevilacqua.
Individual evidence
- ^ Giampiero Petrucci, Carlo Fontanelli: Corse promiscue sotto le bomb . La Biblioteca del Ciclismo. Geo Edizione, Empoli 2000, p. 46 (Italian).
Web links
- Antonio Bevilacqua in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Site of the Museo storico della bicicletta in Cesiomaggiore
1946 Gerrit Peters | 1947, 1949 Fausto Coppi | 1948 Gerrit Schulte | 1950, 1951 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1952, 1953 Sydney Patterson | 1954–56 Guido Messina | 1957–59 Roger Rivière | 1960, 1961 Rudi Altig | 1962 Henk Nijdam | 1963, 1965, 1966 Leandro Faggin | 1964, 1969 Ferdi Bracke | 1967 Tiemen Groen | 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973 Hugh Porter | 1971 Dirk Baert | 1974, 1975 Roy Schuiten | 1976 Francesco Moser | 1977, 1978 Gregor Braun | 1979 Bert Oosterbosch | 1980, 1986 Tony Doyle | 1981, 1982 Alain Bondue | 1983 Steele Bishop | 1984, 1985, 1987 Hans-Henrik Ørsted | 1988 Lech Piasecki | 1989 Colin Sturgess | 1990 Watschislav Ekimow | 1991 Francis Moreau | 1992 Mike McCarthy | 1993, 1995 Graeme Obree | 1994, 1996 Chris Boardman | 1997, 1998 Philippe Ermenault | 1999, 2005, 2006 Robert Bartko | 2000 Jens Lehmann | 2001 Oleksandr Symonenko | 2002 Bradley McGee | 2003, 2007, 2008 Bradley Wiggins | 2004 Sergi Escobar | 2009, 2010 Taylor Phinney | 2011 Jack Bobridge | 2012, 2013 Michael Hepburn | 2014 Alexander Edmondson | 2015 Stefan Küng | 2016, 2018–20 Filippo Ganna | 2017 Jordan Kerby
1885 Giuseppe Loretz | 1886 Geo Davidson | 1887–1889 Gilberto Marley | 1890 Carlo Braida | 1891 Ambrogio Robecchi | 1892 Luigi Cantu | 1893 Giuseppe Moreschi | 1896 Giovanni Da Montelatico | 1906–1908 Giovanni Cuniolo | 1909, 1911 Dario Beni | 1910 Emilio Petiva | 1913, 1914, 1919–1925 Costante Girardengo | 1926–1929 Alfredo Binda | 1930–1934 Learco Guerra | 1935, 1937, 1940, 1952 Gino Bartali | 1936 Giuseppe Olmo | 1938 Olimpio Bizzi | 1939 Mario Vicini | 1941 Adolfo Leoni | 1942, 1947, 1949, 1955 Fausto Coppi | 1943 Mario Ricci | 1945 Severino Canavesi | 1946 Aldo Ronconi | 1948 Vito Ortelli | 1950 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1951, 1953, 1954 Fiorenzo Magni | 1956 Giorgio Albani | 1957, 1958 Ercole Baldini | 1959 Diego Ronchini | 1960, 1962 Nino Defilippis | 1961 Arturo Sabbadin | 1963 Bruno Mealli | 1964 Guido De Rosso | 1965, 1966 Michele Dancelli | 1967 Franco Balmamion | 1968, 1972 Felice Gimondi | 1969 Vittorio Adorni | 1970, 1971, 1976 Franco Bitossi | 1973, 1974, 1977 Enrico Paolini | 1975, 1979, 1981 Francesco Moser | 1978, 1982, 1988 Pierino Gavazzi | 1980 Giuseppe Saronni | 1983, 1989 Moreno Argentin | 1984 Vittorio Algeri | 1985, 1986 Claudio Corti | 1987 Bruno Leali | 1990 Giorgio Furlan | 1991, 1995 Gianni Bugno | 1992 Marco Giovannetti | 1993, 1994 Massimo Podenzana | 1996 Mario Cipollini | 1997 Gianni Faresin | 1998 Andrea Tafi | 1999, 2002 Salvatore Commesso | 2000 Michele Bartoli | 2001 Daniele Nardello | 2003, 2006 Paolo Bettini | 2004 Cristian Moreni | 2005 Enrico Gasparotto | 2007, 2010, 2011 Giovanni Visconti | 2008 Filippo Simeoni | 2009 Filippo Pozzato | 2012 Franco Pellizotti | 2013 Ivan Santaromita | 2014, 2015 Vincenzo Nibali | 2016, 2020 Giacomo Nizzolo | 2017 Fabio Aru | 2018 Elia Viviani | 2019 Davide Formolo
1939 Olimpio Bizzi | 1940–1942, 1947, 1948 Fausto Coppi | 1943, 1949–1951 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1945, 1946 Vito Ortelli | 1949 Antonio Maspes | 1952, 1953 Donato Piazza | 1954–1956 Guido Messina | 1957–1968 Leandro Faggin | 1969, 1973 Davide Boifava | 1970 Giuseppe Rosolen | 1971, 1972 Pietro Guerra | 1974, 1976 Luciano Borgognoni | 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1987 Francesco Moser | 1989 Silvio Martinello | 2003 Alessandro Mazzolani | 2004 Francesco Giuliani | 2005 Alan Marangoni | 2006 Marco Pinotti | 2007 Giairo Ermeti | 2008, 2009, 2012–2014 Marco Coledan | 2015 Alessandro De Marchi | 2016 Michele Scartezzini | 2020 Jonathan Milan
The competition was not held in all years.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bevilacqua, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bevilacqua, Toni (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Maria di Sala |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1972 |
| Place of death | Mestre |