Angelo Ciccone (born 7 July 1980) is an Italian amateur road and track cyclist. He has claimed four Italian national championship titles in track cycling (
omnium
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,
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, and points race), and later represented his nation Italy in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Ciccone currently races for the 2013 season with Cycling Team Friuli under his head coach Roberto Bressan.
Ciccone competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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, where he scored a total of forty-nine points (the victor got ninety-three) to grab the eighth spot in the
men's points race. In that same year, Ciccone also claimed a silver medal in men's
omnium
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at the
European Championships in
Valencia, Spain
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, and eventually collected his first two Italian national championship titles in both team pursuit and
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.
At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, Ciccone qualified for his second Italian squad, as a 28-year-old, in two track cycling events by receiving an automatic berth from
UCI based on his top-ten performance in the Track World Rankings. In the
men's points race, held on the second day of the program, Ciccone picked up a total of eight points without receiving an extra lap to score a thirteenth place in a 25-km, 10-lap sprint race. Teaming with
Fabio Masotti in
men's Madison three days later, Ciccone started out a 50 km, sixteen-sprint race for the Italian duo by taking the lap first over the entire field, but did not receive a single point and lost three laps in all sprints, dropping him and his partner off to fourteenth place.
Four years later, at the
2012 European Championships in
Panevėžys
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, Ciccone and his new partner
Elia Viviani
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scored twenty points to end his eight-year medal drought with a bronze in
men's Madison, finishing ahead of Swiss duo Tristan Marguet and Silvan Dilier by a three-point margin.
Career highlights
;2003
: 1st Coppa San Geo, Italy
: 1st
Poreč Trophy
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, Croatia
: European Championships (Omnium), Moscow (RUS)
;2004
: 1st
Italian Track Cycling Championships (Madison with
Fabio Masotti),
Pordenone
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...
(ITA)
: 1st
Italian Track Cycling Championships (Team pursuit),
Pordenone
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The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'.
...
(ITA)
: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Points race),
Pordenone
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The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'.
...
(ITA)
:
European Championships (Omnium),
Valencia
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(ESP)
: 8th
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Points race
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),
Athens
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(GRE)
;2005
: 1st Stage 8,
Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de São Paulo
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(BRA)
: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Points race),
San Vincenzo (ITA)
: 3rd Coppa San Vito, Italy
: 3rd Stage 5, Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de São Paulo,
Bauru
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(BRA)
: 3rd Stage 7, Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de São Paulo,
Ribeirão Preto
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(BRA)
;2007
: 1st
Italian Track Cycling Championships (Madison with Fabio Masotti),
Dalmine
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(ITA)
: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Derny),
Dalmine
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(ITA)
: Athens Open Balkan Championships (Points race),
Athens
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(ESP)
: 3rd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Scratch),
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;2008
: 3rd Prologue,
Tour of Romania
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, Romania
: 13th
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),
Beijing
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(CHN)
: 14th
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Madison Madison may refer to:
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with Fabio Masotti),
Beijing
}
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(CHN)
;2009
: 1st Stage 3, Tour of Romania,
Botoșani (ROU)
: 4th Stage 1,
Giro del Friuli
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,
Ronchi dei Legionari
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(ITA)
: 5th Prologue, Tour of Romania,
Constanța (ROU)
;2010
: 1st Prologue, Tour of Romania,
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(ROU)
: Stage 4,
UCI World Cup (Madison with
Elia Viviani
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),
Beijing
}
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(CHN)
: 6th
European Championships (
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with Fabio Masotti),
Pruszków
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(POL)
: 7th
UCI World Championships
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(Madison),
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(DEN)
: 11th
UCI World Championships
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(Team pursuit),
Copenhagen
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(DEN)
: 14th
UCI World Championships
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(Points race),
Copenhagen
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(DEN)
;2011
: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Points race), Italy
: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Madison), Italy
: 3rd Memorijal Nevio Valčić, Croatia
: 3rd Overall, Tour of Romania, Romania
;2012
: 1st
Italian Track Cycling Championships (Omnium),
Pordenone
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The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'.
...
(ITA)
:
European Championships (
Madison Madison may refer to:
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with Elia Viviani),
Panevėžys
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(LTU)
: 4th Poreč Trophy, Croatia
: 6th
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),
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(AUS)
;2013
: 4th
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Madison Madison may refer to:
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),
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(BLR)
: 8th
UCI World Championships
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(
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),
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References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ciccone, Angelo
1980 births
Living people
Italian track cyclists
Italian male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of Italy
Sportspeople from the Province of Ferrara
Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna