Severino Rigoni

Severino Rigoni

To person
Date of birth	October 3, 1914
date of death	December 14, 1992
nation	Italy
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1957
Most important successes
Olympic games 1936 - team pursuit
Last updated: October 8, 2019

Severino Rigoni (born October 3, 1914 in Gallio , † December 14, 1992 in Padua ) was an Italian cyclist and cycling trainer.

Athletic career

In 1935 Severino Rigoni had his first great success when he became Italian champion in the sprint of amateurs . The following year he started in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games and won silver with Bianco Bianchi , Mario Gentili and Armando Latini . That year he became the father of a son who was named Olimpio .

Then Rigoni became a professional and was on the podium several times in the following years until 1945 at Italian sprint championships, but could not win another championship title.

From 1949 - Rigoni was now 35 years old - he started in a total of 35 six-day races . In 21 races he drove together with Ferdinando Terruzzi . In 1949 the two drivers won the six-day races in Berlin and New York together . In Berlin he played himself in the six-day film To a Nose Length . With Bruno Sivilotti , he won the six-day race in Rio de Janeiro in 1956 and that of São Paulo in 1957 . He then ended his active cycling career at the age of 42.

After the sport

Silvio Rigoni remained connected to cycling after the end of his career, for example as a trainer at the Società Ciclisti Padovani in the Velodromo Giovanni Monti , where he looked after the later Olympic champion Silvio Martinello , among others . His son Olimpio later continued the family's cycling activities.

successes

1935

• Italian amateur champion - sprint

1936

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Bianco Bianchi , Mario Gentili and Armando Latini )

1949

• Six-day race Berlin (with Ferdinando Terruzzi )
• Six days New York (with Ferdinando Terruzzi )

1956

• Six days Rio de Janeiro (with Bruno Sivilotti )

1957

• Six days in São Paulo (with Bruno Sivilotti )

Web links

• Severino Rigoni in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Severino Rigoni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Roberto Vallalta: Pagine di Sport intervista Silvio Martinello, campionissimo del ciclismo italiano. In: Pagine di Sport. April 23, 2019, accessed October 8, 2019 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de night. Eeklo 2000, p. 239.
3. ↑ Per capire un velodromo lo dovete toccare ... con mano: mettetevi a bordo pista al. In: ilgazzettino.it. June 10, 2015, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
4. ^ Il Giro del Veneto cambia percorso. In: ciclismo.it. August 3, 2005, accessed October 9, 2019 .