Benedetto Pola

Benedetto Pola

To person
Date of birth	April 17, 1915
date of death	August 1, 2000
nation	Italy

Benedetto Pola medal table
Olympic games
4th	1936 Berlin	sprint
4th	1936 Berlin	1000 meter time trial
UCI track world championships
gold	1934 Leipzig	sprint
Italian championship
gold	1933	Sprint (A)
gold	1934	Sprint (A)
silver	1935	Sprint (A)
gold	1936	Sprint (A)
gold	1937	Sprint (A)
gold	1938	sprint
bronze	1941	sprint
bronze	1942	sprint
silver	1945	sprint
bronze	1946	sprint
Grand Prix de Paris
gold	1937	Men (amateurs)

Benedetto Pola (born April 15, 1915 in Borgosatollo ; † August 1, 2000 there ) was an Italian cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

In 1933 and 1934, Benedetto Pola became an amateur Italian sprint champion , and then in 1934 he also won the title of world champion in this discipline in Leipzig . He was a member of the Borgosatollo cycling club.

In 1936 Pola was again Italian sprint champion of the amateurs and then started at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . He took part in two competitions, the sprint and the 1000-meter time trial , and finished fourth in each case.

In 1937 Benedetto Pola won the Grand Prix de Paris , was again Italian sprint champion and then moved on to the professionals. In 1938 he became the Italian professional sprint champion and took several podium places until 1946.

Honors

The “Centro Sportivo” in his hometown Borgosatollo, a place with around 9000 inhabitants in Lombardy , is named after him.

Web links

• Benedetto Pola in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Benedetto Pola in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 42 .
2. ^ Giampiero Petrucci, Carlo Fontanelli: Corse promiscue sotto le bomb . La Biblioteca del Ciclismo. Geo Edizione, Empoli 2000, p. 48 (Italian).