EMI (cycling team)

EMI
Charly Gaul at the 1959 Giro d'Italia
Team information
RegisteredItaly
Founded1959 (1959)
Disbanded1961
Discipline(s)Road
BicyclesGuerra
Team name history
1959
1960
1961
EMI–Guerra
EMI
VOV

EMI was an Italian professional cycling team that existed from 1959 to 1961.[1][2][3] In 1961, the team was renamed to VOV,[3] and the Faema team changed its name to EMI for the 1961 Giro d'Italia.[4] Charly Gaul won the general classification of the 1959 Giro d'Italia with the team.[5]

  1. ^ "Emi - Guerra (1959)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Emi (1960)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Vov (1961)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Faema / Emi - Faema au tour d'Italie (1961)" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. ^ "El luxemburgués Gaul gran vencedor" [The Luxembourish Gaul Big Winner] (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 8 June 1959. p. 7. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.