Francesco Verri

Francesco Verri medal table
Track cycling
Italy
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1906 Athens	1000 meter time trial
gold	1906 Athens	333.33 meters time trial (track lap)
gold	1906 Athens	5000 meters

Francesco Verri (born June 11, 1885 in Mantua , † June 6, 1945 in Riotorto di Piombino ) was an Italian cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , he was one of a total of six athletes who could win three gold medals. He won the time trial over 1,000 meters with a time of 01: 42.2. For the victorious run on the track lap he needed 22.8 seconds and he won the race over 5,000 meters in 07: 28.6. In 1905 Verri had already won the amateur sprint championship. He started cycling in 1903.

In the same year Verri (called "Cesco") also won the world championship in track sprint . In September 1906 Verri became a professional, from 1906 to 1911 and 1920 and 1921 he was Italian champion in the professional track sprint. During the First World War , Ferri was active in the United States and won three six-day races there . In 1924 Verri ended his professional career.

literature

• Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme. Volume 3 PZ published in 2000 by the UCI ISBN 90-74128-74-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): War album of the Radwelt . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1915, p. 19 .

Web links

Commons : Francesco Verri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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