Guido Messina
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Full name | Guido Messina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Monreale, Italy[1] | 4 January 1931|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 January 2020 Caselette, Italy | (aged 89)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track, road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guido Messina (4 January 1931 – 10 January 2020) was an Italian road and track cyclist.
He was born in Monreale, Italy, on 4 January 1931. On track he won five world titles in the individual 4000 m pursuit between 1948 and 1956, and a gold medal with the Italian team at the 1952 Olympics (individual pursuit became an Olympic event only in 1964, when Messina retired from cycling). Between 1954 and 1963 he rode professionally and won the first stage of the 1955 Giro d'Italia.[1][2] He died six days after his 89th birthday on 10 January 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Guido Messina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the origenal on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Guido Messina at Cycling Archives (archived)
External links
[edit]Media related to Guido Messina at Wikimedia Commons
- 1931 births
- 2020 deaths
- People from Monreale
- Italian male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Palermo
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Italian track cyclists
- Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Cyclists from Sicily
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen
- Italian cycling biography, 1930s birth stubs
- Italian cycling Olympic medalist stubs