Orlando Piani
Orlando Piani (born March 24, 1893 in Modigliana , † October 16, 1975 in Orange , New Jersey ) was an Italian track cyclist .
In 1919 Orlando Piani was the Italian champion in the professional sprint . In the 1920s he competed in numerous races in the United States . At the UCI track world championships in Brussels in 1930 , he was third in the sprint at the age of 37. In 1932 he started again at the World Railroad Championships , but retired early. He also drove in six-day races , but with little success: He finished sixth in the six-day race in New York City in 1920 together with the Dutchman Gerard Leene .
In 1932, Piani retired from cycling and settled in the United States after marrying an Italian-American. He died in Orange, just a few miles from Newark , where one of the most popular cycling tracks in the United States used to be and where he often competed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 6dayracing, approx
- ↑ memoire-du-cyclisme.net
- ^ Museo del Ciclismo - Storia di Orlando Piani. In: museociclismo.it. Retrieved January 18, 2020 (Italian).
Web links
- Orlando Piani in the Radsportseiten.net database
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 | Piani, Orlando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Modigliana |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1975 |
| Place of death | Orange , New Jersey |