Virginio Pizzali

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Virginio Pizzali (born December 28, 1934 in Mortegliano ) is a former Italian track cyclist .

Pizzali was Italian champion in the team pursuit with the amateurs in 1955 and 1956. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Pizzali was Olympic champion in the team pursuit , together with Leandro Faggin , Antonio Domenicali , Franco Gandini and Valentino Gasparella . However, he fell in the first round of the competition, broke his collarbone and was replaced by Gasparella in the subsequent rounds. Then he became a professional. As such, he was four times Italian champion in the standing race . In 1957 he won the world criterion for long-term drivers in Leipzig , behind his brother Bruno as a pacemaker . At the UCI Track World Championships in Amsterdam in 1959 , his bad luck was repeated when he fell heavily again in the final and had to be taken to hospital. In 1964 he ended his cycling career.

The Gran Premio Virginio Pizzali cycling race has been held in his hometown of Mortegliano since 2002 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 52/1957 . Berlin.
  2. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Verlag Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1485 (Flemish).
  3. ↑ Pizzali is listed as an Olympic champion in the Olympic database SportsReference . The rule that drivers who do not take part in the finals also receive a medal has only been in effect since 1984. See: Volker Kluge : Summer Olympics. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 459.
  4. ↑ Una Maglia Unica al Mondo per Virginio Pizzali Ciclista Sfortunato on www.museodelciclismo.it (ital.)

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SURNAME Pizzali, Virginio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Mortegliano