Giuseppe Olmo (22 November 1911 – 5 March 1992) was an Italian

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. 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

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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

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. 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

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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,

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: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,

References

External links

Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net

Palmarès by velo-club.net

company websiteOlmo - Argentinacompany website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Olmo, Giuseppe 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