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Bianchi–Dunlop
Bianchi was an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles. A Bianchi cycling team existed in 1899 which implies that Bianchi was sponsoring professional cycling at a very early stage in the sport. It appears that the team existed from 1899 to 1900, then from 1905 to 1966, then from 1973 until 1984. It existed again in 1993 and for the last time in 2003, as . In addition Bianchi has been a co-sponsor of many cycling teams. History In 1899 Giovanni Tommaselli won the first international cycling victory for Bianchi at the world championship of track racing: the '' Grand Prix of Paris''. During the existence of the Bianchi team in Italy in 1919–1920, Bianchi was also a co-sponsor of a French team that was called Peugeot–Bianchi–Pirelli which according to a historical cycling website, the team rode on Peugeot bikes. It is possible that this team rode on Bianchi bikes in Italy. The team had many famous cyclists on the team over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milano–Torino
Milano–Torino is a semi classic European single day cycling race, between the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin over a distance of 199 kilometres. The event was first run in 1876 making it the oldest classic race in the world. The event is owned by the RCS media group which owns the Italian sports daily ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''. RCS also organises other top Italian cycling events such as the Giro d'Italia, Milan–San Remo and Tirreno–Adriatico. The race is ranked UCI ProSeries on the UCI continental calendar. The race was not run between the spring of 2007 and the autumn of 2012. Race dates The position of the race in the European calendar has changed several times. Prior to 1987 the event was always seven days before Milan–San Remo and was seen as an important preparation race for the Spring Classics, however in 1987 Milano–Torino was switched to a date in October just before the Giro di Lombardia because the race organisers were not happy with the incle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Bicycle Racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, 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 competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the (UCI). As well as the UCI's annual UCI Road World Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Emilio Rodriguez
Martin may refer to: Places Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Martín River, a tributary of the Ebro river in Spain * Martin (Val Poschiavo), Switzerland England * Martin, Hampshire * Martin, Kent * Martin, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, a hamlet and former parish * Martin, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, a village and parish * Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire * Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire ** WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas North America Canada * Rural Municipality of Martin No. 122, Saskatchewan, Canada * Martin Islands, Nunavut, Canada United States * Martin, Florida * Martin, Georgia * Martin, Indiana * Martin, Kentucky * Martin, Louisiana * Martin, Michigan * Martin, Nebraska * Martin, North Dakota * Martin, Ohio * Martin, South Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Ganna
Luigi Ganna (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1957) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. He was the overall winner of the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909, as well as the first Italian winner of the classic Milan–San Remo earlier that year. Further highlights in his career were his fifth place in the 1908 Tour de France and several podium places in Italian classic races. In 1908, he set a new Italian hour record, which he held for six years. He was born in Induno Olona, near Varese, in Lombardy. Before becoming a professional cyclist, he worked as a bricklayer, commuting up to 100 km to work by bike. In 1912, he started a bike brand named Ganna which was still around in 2012. In 1913, he started the Ganna Cycling team where he rode for the final three years of his career. His company sponsored the team until 1953 when they could no longer meet obligations and Nivea–Fuchs took over. Major results Sources: ;1905 :3rd Giro di Lombardia ;1906 :3rd Giro d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coppa Val D'Olona
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Coppa or COPPA may refer to: * ''Coppa'' or ''capocollo'', a type of Italian pork cold cut * Montonico bianco, a white Italian wine grape variety grown in the Calabria region of southern Italy * Coppa (surname) * Coppa Italia, a domestic Italian league cup * Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a United States federal cyber law See also * Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) * Koppa (other) * Copper (other) Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Copper or The Copper may also refer to: Color * Copper (color), the color of the metal * Copper (heraldry), when used as a metal tincture in heraldry Places * Copper Mountain (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Rossignoli
Giovanni Rossignoli (3 December 1882 – 27 June 1954) was an Italian professional road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer who won 3 Giro d'Italia stages during his career. Palmares ;1903 : 1st Corsa Nazionale ;1905 : 1st Milano–Torino ;1906 : 1st Milano–Mantova ;1907 : 1st Coppa Val d'Olona ;1908 : 10th Overall classification 1908 Tour de France, Tour de France ;1909 : 1st Stage 3 1909 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 6 1909 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia : 3rd Overall classification 1909 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ;1911 : 1st Stage 3 1911 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia : 2nd Overall classification 1911 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia ;1912 : 3rd Overall classification 1912 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia Bibliography * References 1882 births 1954 deaths Italian male cyclists Sportspeople from Pavia Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Cyclists from the Province of Pavia {{italy-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Absalon
Julien Arnaud Absalon (born 16 August 1980) is a French former cross-country mountain biker, who competed as a professional from 2001 to 2018. He is considered to be one of the most successful cross-country cyclists of all time. Throughout his career, Absalon won gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, five World Championships (2004–2007, 2014), seven UCI World Cup overall titles (2003, 2006–2009, 2014, 2016) and 33 World Cup rounds, which was an all-time record before being broken by Nino Schurter in 2023. He also won all fourteen French cross-country championships between 2003 and 2016, and five European Championships (2006, 2013–2016). Career highlights ''Source'': 2003: Absalon won his first UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. 2004: Gold at World Champions and the Athens Olympic Games. 2005: Absalon again won the World Championships. 2006: Winner at the World Championships, European Championships, French Championships and the overall World Cup. 2007: World Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antonio Hermida
José Antonio Hermida Ramos (born August 24, 1978 in Puigcerdà, Girona) is a Spanish Bicycle racing, cyclist of Catalonia (Spain), Catalan origin specializing in competitive mountain bike, mountain biking. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece after having finished in fourth place in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Major results Cyclo-cross ;2006–2007 : 1st Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships, National Championships ;2007–2008 : 1st Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships, National Championships : 2nd Ispaster ;2009–2010 : 1st Valencia : 2nd Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships, National Championships ;2010–2011 : 2nd Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships, National Championships ;2011–2012 : 1st Valencia : 3rd Asteasu ;2014–2015 : 3rd Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships, National Championships Mountain bike ;1996 : 1st Cross-country, 1996 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, UCI World Junior Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Maxbo Bianchi
Joker Fuel of Norway () was a UCI Continental cycling team based in Norway, managed by Birger Hungerholdt with assistance from directeur sportifs Gino van Oudehove and Anders Linnestad. The team had well known riders, including Alexander Kristoff who rode for the team from 2007 to 2009, and Edvald Boasson Hagen who joined the team in 2006 and in his first season in the continental circuits he took eight wins including three stages of the Tour de l'Avenir. The team folded in 2020 due to financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Team roster Major wins ;2006 : Road Race Championships, Lars Petter Nordhaug :Stage 4 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Edvald Boasson Hagen :Stages 1 & 5 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23, Edvald Boasson Hagen :GP Möbel Alvisse, Gabriel Rasch :Stage 3 Flèche du Sud, Christopher Myhre :Overall Ringerike GP, Gabriel Rasch ::Stage 3, Edvald Boasson Hagen : Scandinavian Open Road Race, Edvald Boasson Hagen :Stages 2, 5 & 7 Tour de l'Avenir, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liquigas-Bianchi
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. History The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Italian companies Liquigas and Bianchi, therefore it was named Liquigas–Bianchi. It featured a number of big names including Italian riders Mario Cipollini, Danilo Di Luca and Stefano Garzelli, as well as Magnus Bäckstedt. In 2007, Cannondale replaced Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marked Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre–Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season. Being an American company, their sponsorship led to a small American ridership on the team. On 11 July 2008 the news broke from the French sports paper ''L'Équipe'' that Spanish rider Manuel Beltrán had tested positive for EPO after the first stage of the tour. It was blood abnormalities before the start of the tour that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
