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| Full name | Angelo Ciccone | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 1980 Cento, Italy[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Cycling Team Friuli[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road, track | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2003–2005 | Marchiol-Famila-Site | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Cycling Team Friuli[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | San Marco Concrete Imet Caneva | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Azzurre | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Cycling Team Friuli[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angelo Ciccone (born 7 July 1980) is an Italian amateur road and track cyclist.[2] He has claimed four Italian national championship titles in track cycling (omnium, madison, and points race), and later represented his nation Italy in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Ciccone currently races for the 2013 season with Cycling Team Friuli under his head coach Roberto Bressan.[1]
Ciccone competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he scored a total of forty-nine points (the victor got ninety-three) to grab the eighth spot in the men's points race.[3] In that same year, Ciccone also claimed a silver medal in men's omnium at the European Championships in Valencia, Spain, and eventually collected his first two Italian national championship titles in both team pursuit and madison.[4][5]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ciccone qualified for his second Italian squad, as a 28-year-old, in two track cycling events by receiving an automatic berth from UCI based on his top-ten performance in the Track World Rankings.[6] In the men's points race, held on the second day of the program, Ciccone picked up a total of eight points without receiving an extra lap to score a thirteenth place in a 25-km, 10-lap sprint race.[7][8] Teaming with Fabio Masotti in men's Madison three days later, Ciccone started out a 50 km, sixteen-sprint race for the Italian duo by taking the lap first over the entire field, but did not receive a single point and lost three laps in all sprints, dropping him and his partner off to fourteenth place.[9][10][11]
Four years later, at the 2012 European Championships in Panevėžys, Lithuania, Ciccone and his new partner Elia Viviani scored twenty points to end his eight-year medal drought with a bronze in men's Madison, finishing ahead of Swiss duo Tristan Marguet and Silvan Dilier by a three-point margin.[12]
- ^ a b c d e "CONI Profile – Angelo Ciccone" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Angelo Ciccone". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Cycling: Men's Points Race". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Un poker d'assi per i tricolori al Bottecchia" [Four aces for the tricolor at Bottecchia] (in Italian). Messaggero Veneto – Giornale del Friuli. 29 June 2004. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Europei di pista, 13 medaglie per la spedizione azzurra" [13 medals for the Italians at the European track] (in Italian). Ciclismo Italiano. 19 July 2004. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Sono 23 gli azzurri Fvgin partenza per Pechino 2008" [23 athletes from FVG are leaving for Beijing] (in Italian). Messaggero Veneto – Giornale del Friuli. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Men's Points Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ^ "Llaneras scores points gold". Velo News. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ "Men's Madison". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (19 August 2008). "Argentina lands knockout blow early". Cycling News. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Olimpiadi, ciclismo: azzurri fuori dal podio nel Madison" [Olympic cycling: Italians off the podium in Madison] (in Italian). Reuters. 19 August 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Europei Pista 2012, chiusura con un bronzo" [2012 European track ends with a bronze] (in Italian). Spazio Ciclismo. 22 October 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.