Giuseppe Atzeni

Giuseppe Atzeni

Giuseppe Atzeni (2010)
To person
Date of birth	April 8, 1978
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Most important successes
UEC European Rail Championships 2006, 2009, 2010 - Standing race
Last updated: June 21, 2017

Giuseppe "Giusi" Atzeni (born April 8, 1978 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2005 Giuseppe Atzeni was part of the team that won the team time trial of the Vuelta a El Salvador . At the 2006/07 Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney , he was second in the scratch behind the Belarusian Wassil Kiryjenka .

Since 2006 Atzeni has been driving mainly stalker races on the track . In this discipline he was three times - in 2007, 2009 and 2010 - European champion (world championships are no longer held), in 2011 he became vice-European champion behind the Dutchman Patrick Kos . By 2016, he and his pacemaker Mathias Luginbühl had won the Swiss championship six times at the Zurich-Oerlikon open race track .

Giuseppe Atzeni won the stayer competitions in six-day races seven times .

In November 2019 Atzeni started at the Wieler 3 Daagse in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, at his last international competition; in future he only wants to contest national races in Zurich.

successes

2005 Team time trial Vuelta a El Salvador 2006 European champion - standing race 2007 Swiss champions - standing races 2009 European champion - standing race Swiss champions - standing races 2010 European champion - standing race 2011 European Championship - Standing Race 2012 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl )

2013 European Championship - Standing Race (behind André Dippel ) Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl ) 2014 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl ) 2015 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl ) 2016 European Championship - Standing Race (behind René Aebi ) 2017 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl ) 2018 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl ) 2019 Swiss Champion - Standing Race (behind Mathias Luginbühl )

Teams

Atzeni with pacemaker André Dippel at the European Championships in Nuremberg (2013)

• 2000 KIA-Villiger Suisse
• 2009 Nazionale Elettronica New Slot-Hadimec

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Atzeni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Giuseppe Atzeni in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siebner “Steher” gets third title on marchanzeiger.ch v. August 9, 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Achievements. In: atzeni-race.ch. Retrieved May 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Afscheid van een sympathiek stayer. In: baanwacht.nl. November 2, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 (Dutch).