Leandro Faggin

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Leandro Faggin Road cycling
Leandro Faggin (1967)
Leandro Faggin (1967)
To person
Date of birth July 18, 1933
date of death December 6, 1970
nation ItalyItaly Italy
Most important successes
Olympic games
1956 gold - 1000 meter time trial, team pursuit
Last updated: March 19, 2018
Faggin in the 1960s

Leandro Faggin , (born July 18, 1933 in Padua , † December 6, 1970 there ) was an Italian cyclist . Faggin was a two-time Olympic champion and a four-time world champion in the singles pursuit .

Athletic career

Leandro Faggin became Italian champion in the single pursuit in 1954 and amateur world champion in the same discipline in the same year . In 1955 he was third in the amateur world championships . At the Olympic Summer Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Faggin competed in the time trial and in the team pursuit (with Valentino Gasparella , Franco Gandini , Antonio Domenicali and Virginio Pizzali ) and won the gold medal in both disciplines, in the team pursuit with a new world and Olympic record (4 : 37.4 min). In the same year he was second in the single pursuit of the amateurs at the track cycling world championships .

1957 Faggin switched to the pros and won the national title in the singles pursuit. He won this title annually until 1968, the year he ended his career. In 1959 he also won the Omnium title . Faggin also took part in the track cycling world championships in his specialty, the individual pursuit. In 1958 he came in second, in 1961 in third and again in second in 1962 , before becoming the professional pursuit champion for the first time in 1963 . After finishing second in 1964 , he became world champion again in 1965 and 1966 . In 1967 and 1968 he took third place. He won a total of twelve medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships and, along with his compatriot Guido Messina, is considered one of the best pursuers “of all time”. In addition, he set three world records over 5000 meters without a pacemaker .

In addition to his success at the World Railroad Championships, Faggin also won eight six-day races . At the UCI World Championships in 1967, he was tested positive for doping agents and fined.

In 1970 Faggin died in his hometown of Padua after a long illness at the age of 37. In Padua a street and a cycling club are named after him; the Scuola di Ciclismo "Leandro Faggin" association runs the Velodromo Giovanni Monti there . In 1956 the Italian government honored him with the Knight's Order ("Cavaliere").

successes

1954
1955
1956
1957
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - one's pursuit
1958
1959
1960
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - one's pursuit
1961
1962
1963
  • World Champion World Champion - Individual Pursuit
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - one's pursuit
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1967

Web links

Commons : Leandro Faggin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 36/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 5 .
  2. ^ Cycling , December 8, 1970.
  3. ↑ Harry Van den Bremt, Joel Godaert, Paul De Keyser: Gotha Velo . Ed .: Velo. Mechelen 2005, ISBN 90-804763-3-1 , p. 193 .
personal data
SURNAME Faggin, Leandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1970
Place of death Padua