Italo Astolfi
Italo Astolfi (born December 31, 1917 in Zibido San Giacomo , † April 7, 2004 in Croglio , Switzerland ) was an Italian track cyclist and national champion in cycling .
In 1939 Italo Astolfi finished second in the amateur sprint at the UCI World Railroad Championships in Milan , behind Jan Derksen from the Netherlands and ahead of German Gerhard Purann , one day before World War II broke out. Also in 1939 he won the prestigious Copenhagen Grand Prix in the sprint for amateurs. From 1940 to 1951 he was a professional driver, most of the time without a team contract. Between 1941 and 1950 he won the title of Italian sprint champion seven times.
Astolfi's older brother Ferruccio was also a cyclist. In 1935 he took 45th place near Milan – Sanremo .
Web links
- Italo Astolfi in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 26 (Italian).
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 | Astolfi, Italo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zibido San Giacomo |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2004 |
| Place of death | Croglio , Switzerland |