Giuseppe Olmo (22 November 1911 – 5 March 1992) was an
Italian road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
. 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 ). The Olmo manufacturing center was set up in his home town of
Celle Ligure
Celle Ligure ( lij, Çelle) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa and about northeast of Savona.
It borders the comuni of: Albisola Superiore, Stella, and Varazze.
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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 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
Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l. or Colnago is a manufacturer of high quality road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. It remained a family-controlled firm until May 4, 2020, when it was announced that the UAE-b ...
. Today they produce many high quality race bicycles, as well as mountain and city bicycles of ranging quality.
Major results
;1932
:,
Olympic Team road race (with
Attilio Pavesi
Attilio Pavesi (1 October 1910 – 2 August 2011) was an Italian cyclist who won the individual and team road races at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The same year he placed second in the Giro di Sicilia, and in 1933–35 rode as professional, but wi ...
and
Guglielmo Segato)
:1st,
Milano–Torino
;1933
:1st, Stages 4 and 12,
Giro d'Italia
;1934
:4th,
Giro d'Italia
::1st, Stages 13, 16 and 17
;1935
:1st,
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...
:3rd,
Giro d'Italia
::1st, Stages 5, 13, 17 and 18
;1936
:
National Road Race Championship
:1st,
Giro dell'Emilia
:2nd,
Giro d'Italia
::1st, Stages 1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15b, 16, 17a and 19
;1937
:1st, Stage 6,
Giro d'Italia
;1938
:1st,
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...
References
External links
Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.netPalmarès by velo-club.netcompany websiteOlmo - Argentinacompany website
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1911 births
1992 deaths
Cyclists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
Italian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists of Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Sportspeople from the Province of Savona
Olympic medalists in cycling
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Liguria
Italian cycle designers