Vittorio Carlevaro

Vittorio Carlevaro

Vittorio Carlevaro behind Giulio Picollo (1903)
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Nickname	l'Ovadese Volante
Date of birth	1882
date of death	February 1905
nation	Italy
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1904
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	SG Andrea Doria
Last updated: January 6, 2018

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Vittorio Carlevaro (* 1882 in Pratalborato near Ovada , † February 1905 in Buenos Aires ) was an Italian cyclist and aviation pioneer.

Athletic career

Vittorio Carlevaro lived with his family in Ovada from 1900. He was said to have a "restless and adventurous" spirit.

In 1902 Carlevaro was third in the regional road cycling championship of Piedmont . In the same year he finished second behind the eventual winner of the Tour of Lombardy , Giovanni Gerbi , in the renowned road race Coppa del Re . On the cycling track of Genoa he played successfully pacemaker race behind the pace Giulio Picollo; the two men were close friends. In 1903 he was the Italian standing master of the amateurs behind Picollo . Together, the two men also set a new Italian hour record over 51.750 kilometers. In the same year Carlevaro and Picollo started at the World Railroad Championships in Copenhagen and won the silver medal. In 1904 Carlevaro ended his cycling career.

Carlevaro went to America , where he worked as an acrobat, motor sportsman and pilot. In February 1905 he was killed in Buenos Aires when a plane he was piloting crashed. His former pacemaker Picollo (1880–1910) also crashed five years later as a pilot at such a show in São Paulo with a Blériot machine and died.

successes

1903

• World Championship - Standing Race (behind Giulio Picollo)
• Italian Amateur Champion - Standing Race (behind Giulio Picollo)

Web links

• Vittorio Carlevaro in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Walter Secondino: Ovadesi in Bicicletta . Accademia Urbense, S. 40 . (pdf)
2. ↑ Guide dell'Accademia Urbense. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .  (pdf)