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Historic Overview Giuseppe Olmo

Rider

Overall Rank386
NameGiuseppe OLMO
Country
  Italy
Date of birth22-Nov-1911 - Celle Ligure (Liguria)
Date of death05-Mar-1992 - Milano (Lombardia)
ContemporiesView Contemporary Ranking

Biography

Giuseppe Olmo

Giuseppe Olmo (22 November 1911 – 5 March 1992) was an Italian road bicycle racer. He competed at the 1932 Olympics and won a gold medal in the team road race, placing fourth individually. In October 1935 he set a new hour record at 45.090 km.

As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the late 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Biciclette). The Olmo Biciclette manufacturing center was set up in his home town of Celle Ligure Italy in 1938, where the company continues to manufacture their bicycles today.

Later in his life, Giuseppe (Often called "Gepin" for short) came to be known as a successful entrepreneur and between the 1940s and 1970s he expanded his company into several manufacturing industries. These individual businesses are all managed under the Olmo Group today. Olmo la Biciclissima or Giuseppe Olmo spa, as the bicycle manufacture goes by today. They produced some very high quality bicycles often comparative quality to the great Colnago. Today they produce many high quality race bicycles, as well as mountain and city bicycles of ranging quality.

source - Wikipedia

Badges

20 7 2 2 3 27

Major Victories

Milano - Sanremo 1935, 1938
Giro dell'Emilia 1936
Milano - Torino 1932
Campionato d'Italia su strada 1936
Torino - Ceriale 1938
Giro d'Italia - stages 1933 (2), 1934 (3), 1935 (4), 1936 (10), 1937 (1)
Giro del Piemonte - stages 1932 (1)
More results

Seasons

Giuseppe Olmo - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1931 Individual 207 140
2. 1932 Individual 309 123
3. 1933 Bianchi 754 52
4. 1934 Bianchi 1446 18
5. 1935 Bianchi 2541 3
6. 1936 Bianchi 3065 1
7. 1937 Bianchi 253 168
8. 1938 Bianchi 788 58
9. 1939 Bianchi 0 1184
10. 1940 Bianchi 66 166
11. 1941 Dei 0 779
12. 1942 Dei 0 653
Overall: 9429 386