Giuseppe Olmo

Giuseppe Olmo

Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Olmo
Born	(1911-11-22)22 November 1911 Celle Ligure, Italy
Died	5 March 1992(1992-03-05) (aged 80) Milan, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1933–1940	Bianchi
1940–1942	Dei
Major wins
Olympic Team road race (1932) Milan-Sanremo (1935, 1938) Giro d'Italia, 20 stages National Road Race Championship (1936)
Medal record Competitor for  Italy Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles Team road race World Championships 1931 Copenhagen Amateur's Road Race

Giuseppe Olmo (22 November 1911 – 5 March 1992) was an Italian road bicycle racer, who once held the world record for an hour's run on a bicycle, with 45.090 km, until it was beaten in 1936.^[1] He was born in Celle Ligure.

As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Biciclette).^[2] The Olmo Biciclette manufacturing center was set up in his home town of Celle Ligure Italy in 1938,^[3] 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.^[4] Olmo la Biciclissima 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. Today they produce many high quality race bicycles, as well as mountain and city bicycles of ranging quality.

Major results

References

External links

• Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (French)
• Palmarès by velo-club.net (French)
• company website
• Olmo - Argentina
• company website