Bruno Loatti
Bruno Loatti (born February 26, 1915 in Castel Bolognese ; † September 25, 1962 Bologna ) was an Italian track cyclist .
In 1936 Bruno Loatti started at the Olympic Games in Berlin with Carlo Legutti in a tandem race ; the duo took fourth place. In 1938 Loatti was runner-up in the amateurs sprint in Amsterdam . In the same year, as in 1939, he finished second in the prestigious sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris . In 1939 he became the Italian sprint champion.
While Loatti was touring Argentina , World War II broke out. He stayed in South America and became national coach in Chile ; In 1945 he finished third with Constant Huys in the six days of Buenos Aires . He then ran a bicycle shop in Buenos Aires. In 1961 he returned to Italy and died there the following year.
Web links
- Bruno Loatti in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Bruno Loatti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
1891 Ambrogio Robecchi | 1894 Narciso Pasta | 1895, 1903, 1904 Pietro Bixio | 1896 Luigi Pontecchi | 1897, 1899 Gian Ferdinando Tomaselli | 1900 Giuseppe Singrossi | 1901 Umberto Ferrari | 1902 Antonio Restelli | 1905, 1913 Angelo Gardellin | 1906–1911, 1920, 1921 Francesco Verri | 1912, 1914 Amedeo Polledri | 1919 Orlando Piani | 1922–1927 Cesare Moretti sr. | 1928, 1930 Mario Bergamini | 1929 Pietro Linari | 1931–1933, 1936, 1937 Avanti Martinetti | 1934, 1935 Bruno Pellizzari | 1938 Benedetto Pola | 1939 Bruno Loatti | 1940, 1943, 1945 Primo Bergomi | 1941, 1942, 1946–1950 Italo Astolfi | 1951 Mario Ghella | 1952–1954, 1956, 1957, 1959–1963, 1965 Antonio Maspes | 1955 Enzo Sacchi | 1958 Giuseppe Ogna | 1964 Sante Gaiardoni | 1966 Sergio Bianchetto | 1967–1969 Giuseppe Beghetto | 1970–1972, 1974, 1975, 1978–1980 Giordano Turrini | 1973, 1976, 1977 Ezio Cardi | 1981 Moreno Capponcelli | 1982–1985, 1987 Ottavio Dazzan | 1986, 1988-1991 Claudio Golinelli | 2003–2010 Roberto Chiappa | 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 Luca Ceci | 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019 Francesco Ceci | 2014 Davide Ceci
The sprint was not consistently held at Italian track championships. The data are also not complete.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loatti, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castel Bolognese |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bologna |