Andrea Collinelli (born 2 July 1969) is an Italian former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s ...

and Olympic champion in

track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

Biography

He received a gold medal in ''4000m

individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...

'' at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Cycling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on June 1, 2008)

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* * * 1969 births Living people Italian male cyclists Olympic gold medalists for Italy Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Italy Sportspeople from Ravenna Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Italian track cyclists Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub