Olimpio Bizzi
Olimpio Bizzi (born August 1, 1916 in Livorno , † August 3, 1976 in Abetone ) was an Italian cyclist .
From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, Olimpio Bizzi was part of the second guard of Italian racing drivers in the shadow of Gino Bartali , Learco Guerra and Fausto Coppi . He was a professional driver from 1936 to 1952. He usually finished second or third in numerous major races, but he was denied great success during his career. In 1936 he came second at Milan – Sanremo , Milan – Turin and the Giro dell'Emilia . In 1937 and 1943 he won the Giro di Toscana and in 1937 and 1939 the Tre Valli Varesine . In 1950 he was the winner of the Tour of Morocco .
Bizzi started nine times at the Giro d'Italia , was able to win 13 stages - for example in 1936 at the age of 19 as the youngest stage winner - but could not finish the tour five times. In 1939 he achieved his best result in the tour with 11th place in the overall classification.
Olimpio Bizzi was twice Italian champion, in 1938 on the road and in 1939 in the single pursuit on the track . At the end of his career he had achieved 30 victories as a professional driver.
Web links
- Olimpio Bizzi in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Luciano Boccaccini, Giovanni Tarello: Annuario Storico Del Ciclismo Italiano . Publialfa Edizion, Milan 1994, p. 70 (Italian).
1885 Giuseppe Loretz | 1886 Geo Davidson | 1887–1889 Gilberto Marley | 1890 Carlo Braida | 1891 Ambrogio Robecchi | 1892 Luigi Cantu | 1893 Giuseppe Moreschi | 1896 Giovanni Da Montelatico | 1906–1908 Giovanni Cuniolo | 1909, 1911 Dario Beni | 1910 Emilio Petiva | 1913, 1914, 1919–1925 Costante Girardengo | 1926–1929 Alfredo Binda | 1930–1934 Learco Guerra | 1935, 1937, 1940, 1952 Gino Bartali | 1936 Giuseppe Olmo | 1938 Olimpio Bizzi | 1939 Mario Vicini | 1941 Adolfo Leoni | 1942, 1947, 1949, 1955 Fausto Coppi | 1943 Mario Ricci | 1945 Severino Canavesi | 1946 Aldo Ronconi | 1948 Vito Ortelli | 1950 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1951, 1953, 1954 Fiorenzo Magni | 1956 Giorgio Albani | 1957, 1958 Ercole Baldini | 1959 Diego Ronchini | 1960, 1962 Nino Defilippis | 1961 Arturo Sabbadin | 1963 Bruno Mealli | 1964 Guido De Rosso | 1965, 1966 Michele Dancelli | 1967 Franco Balmamion | 1968, 1972 Felice Gimondi | 1969 Vittorio Adorni | 1970, 1971, 1976 Franco Bitossi | 1973, 1974, 1977 Enrico Paolini | 1975, 1979, 1981 Francesco Moser | 1978, 1982, 1988 Pierino Gavazzi | 1980 Giuseppe Saronni | 1983, 1989 Moreno Argentin | 1984 Vittorio Algeri | 1985, 1986 Claudio Corti | 1987 Bruno Leali | 1990 Giorgio Furlan | 1991, 1995 Gianni Bugno | 1992 Marco Giovannetti | 1993, 1994 Massimo Podenzana | 1996 Mario Cipollini | 1997 Gianni Faresin | 1998 Andrea Tafi | 1999, 2002 Salvatore Commesso | 2000 Michele Bartoli | 2001 Daniele Nardello | 2003, 2006 Paolo Bettini | 2004 Cristian Moreni | 2005 Enrico Gasparotto | 2007, 2010, 2011 Giovanni Visconti | 2008 Filippo Simeoni | 2009 Filippo Pozzato | 2012 Franco Pellizotti | 2013 Ivan Santaromita | 2014, 2015 Vincenzo Nibali | 2016, 2020 Giacomo Nizzolo | 2017 Fabio Aru | 2018 Elia Viviani | 2019 Davide Formolo
1939 Olimpio Bizzi | 1940–1942, 1947, 1948 Fausto Coppi | 1943, 1949–1951 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1945, 1946 Vito Ortelli | 1949 Antonio Maspes | 1952, 1953 Donato Piazza | 1954–1956 Guido Messina | 1957–1968 Leandro Faggin | 1969, 1973 Davide Boifava | 1970 Giuseppe Rosolen | 1971, 1972 Pietro Guerra | 1974, 1976 Luciano Borgognoni | 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1987 Francesco Moser | 1989 Silvio Martinello | 2003 Alessandro Mazzolani | 2004 Francesco Giuliani | 2005 Alan Marangoni | 2006 Marco Pinotti | 2007 Giairo Ermeti | 2008, 2009, 2012–2014 Marco Coledan | 2015 Alessandro De Marchi | 2016 Michele Scartezzini | 2020 Jonathan Milan
The competition was not held in all years.
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| SURNAME | Bizzi, Olimpio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1976 |
| Place of death | Abetone |