Giuseppe Ogna
Giuseppe Ogna (born November 5, 1933 in Sant 'Eufemia , Brescia , † May 8, 2010 in Vigorelli di Milano ) was an Italian cyclist and world champion in sprinting .
Athletic career
Giuseppe Ogna was a specialist in track sprint and tandem races . In these two disciplines he was four times Italian champion between 1954 and 1958 and reached further podium places by 1963, both as an amateur and after 1957 as a professional. In 1955 he also won the Milan-Busseto road race .
In 1955, Ogna was world champion in the sprint of amateurs on the Vigorelli track in Milan . He took part in the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and won the bronze medal in a tandem race with Cesare Pinarello .
In the 1960s Giuseppe Ogna also took part in 21 six-day races; He won two of them: 1962 in Adelaide with Nino Solari and 1963 in Launceston with Warwick Dalton . Ogna ended his career as a professional driver in 1968.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 275 (Italian).
Web links and sources
- Giuseppe Ogna in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Giuseppe Ogna in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- News of death
1893 Arthur A. Zimmerman | 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Jaap Eden | 1896 Harry Reynolds | 1897 Edwin Schrader | 1898 Paul Albert | 1899 Thomas Summersgill | 1900 Alphonse Didier-Nauts | 1901 Émile Maitrot | 1902 Charles Piard | 1903 Arthur L. Reed | 1904 Marcus Hurley | 1905 Jimmy S. Benyon | 1906 Francesco Verri | 1907 Jean Devoissoux | 1908 Victor Johnson | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 William Bailey | 1912 Donald McDougall | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Maurice Peeters | 1921 Henry Brask Andersen | 1922 Thomas Johnson | 1923, 1924 Lucien Michard | 1925 Jaap Meijer | 1926 Avanti Martinetti | 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Willy Falck Hansen | 1929 Antoine Mazairac | 1930 Louis Gérardin | 1931 Helge Harder | 1932 Albert Richter | 1933 Jacobus van Egmond | 1934 Benedetto Pola | 1935 Toni Merkens | 1936 Arie van Vliet | 1937, 1938 Jef van de Vijver | 1939 Jan Derksen | 1940–1945 not held | 1946 Oscar Plattner ; | 1947 Reginald Harris | 1948 Mario Ghella | 1949 Sydney Patterson | 1950 Maurice Verdeun | 1951, 1952 Enzo Sacchi | 1953 Marino Morettini | 1954 Cyril Peacock | 1955 Giuseppe Ogna | 1956, 1957 Michel Rousseau | 1958, 1959 Valentino Gasparella | 1960 Sante Gaiardoni | 1961, 1962 Sergio Bianchetto | 1963 Patrick Sercu | 1964 Pierre Trentin | 1965 Omar Pchakadze | 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Daniel Morelon | 1968 Luigi Borghetti | 1972 not held | 1974, 1978 Anton Tkáč | 1976 not held | 1977 Jürgen Geschke | 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987 Lutz Heßlich | 1980 not held | 1981, 1982 Sergei Kopylov | 1984 not held | 1986 Michael Huebner | 1988 not held | 1989, 1990 Bill Huck | 1991 Jens Fiedler
(Afterwards the separation between amateurs and professionals was lifted. Further results under world champion in sprint )
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 | Ogna, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sant 'Eufemia , Brescia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2010 |
| Place of death | Vigorelli di Milano |