Pietro Bixio
Pietro Bixio (born August 11, 1875 in Genoa , † July 26, 1905 in Busalla ) was an Italian track cyclist .
Three times - in 1895, 1903 and 1904 - Pietro Bixio was Italian champion in the professional sprint . In 1900 he started at the Olympic Games in Paris in the Grand Prix de l'Exposition , which was advertised for professionals and valued at 15,000 French francs , making it the most highly endowed cycle race in the world to date. Bixio was eliminated in the semifinals. In the team competition Grande Course de Nations over 1500 meters (in the form of a points run ) he finished third together with Gian Ferdinando Tomaselli and Giuseppe Singrossi , which was endowed with 3000 francs.
At the UCI Track World Championships in Rome in 1902 , Bixio took third place in the professional sprint , making him the first Italian to win an individual medal at the World Cycling Championships. In 1903 he also took third place at the Grand Prix de Paris . He won the Italian Grand Prix in sprinting in 1895, which was also the first time the race was held.
Bixio died of an incurable disease at the age of 29.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 72ff.
Web links
- Pietro Bixio 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 | Bixio, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1905 |
| Place of death | Busalla |