Ivo Mancini

Ivo Mancini (born April 6, 1915 in Guasticce di Collesalvetti , † February 24, 2000 in Livorno ) was an Italian cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

From 1932 to 1934 he won a total of 54 races as an amateur . 1935 was the year of his greatest sporting success. He was first Italian champion in the street race of amateurs and then in August in Belgium world champion of amateurs. In the race for the UCI World Cup , the 32 riders from 12 nations (including the Italians Mancini, Olimpio Bizzi denied and Del Cancia), launched Mancini shortly before the finish a successful breakaway, who gave him the target 17 seconds ahead of Robert Charpentier from France and the Dane brought Grundhall. In Italy he won the Grand Premio Maino in the same year . The following season he became a professional driver. He was a professional driver from 1936 (interrupted by World War II ) to 1947. In 1939 he started in the Giro d'Italia and finished the race 53rd in the overall standings after being eliminated in 1936 and 1937. Mancini won two races as a professional driver.

Web links

• Ivo Mancini in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memoria Ivo Mancini. Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Italian). 
2. ^ Angelo Gardellin: Pagine di Gloria del Ciclismo Italiano . Padova 1957, p. 305 (Italian).
3. ↑ Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 233 (Italian).