Guglielmo Franchetti or Gino Franchetti (born 5 October 1985) is former

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from Italy.

Career

Franchetti was a member of

Italy national speedway team The Italy national speedway team are motorcycle speedway national team from Italy. The best achievement of team is 7th place in Speedway World Cup in 2004. 2013 Team * Michele Paco Castagna * Nicolas Vicentin * Guglielmo Franchetti * Nicolas ...

, earning 5 international caps and was twice Italian National Champion in 2009 and 2012. He rode in the British leagues for

Berwick Bandits The Berwick Bandits are a British speedway club, based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. They currently compete in the SGB Championship, racing at Shielfield Park, with home matches usually taking place on Saturday evenings. They also run a second team ...

during the

2008 Premier League speedway season The 2008 Premier League speedway season was the second division of motorcycle speedway racing in the United Kingdom and the 14th season since its creation in 1995. The league was governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with ...

and 2009 Premier League speedway season. He then rode for the

Plymouth Devils The Plymouth Gladiators are a speedway team in the British SGB Championship. Under several names Plymouth have competed during various seasons from 1932. The club was reformed after a gap of thirty-six years in 2006 by former St Austell Gulls ...

in 2011 and 2012.

Honours

World Championships

* Team World Championship (

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The last edi ...

) ** '' 2006 - 4th place in Qualifying round 2 (3 points)'' ** ''

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- 4th place in Qualifying round 2 (8 points)'' ** ''

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- 3rd place in Qualifying round 1 (7 points)'' ** ''

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- 4th place in Qualifying round 2 (7 points)''

European Championships

* Individual European Championship ** ''

- 14th place in Semi-Final A (4 points)'' ** ''

- 12th place in Qualifying Round 3'' * European Pairs Championship ** ''

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- 7th place in Semi-Final 1 (2 points)'' **

- Terenzano - 7th place (3 points) ** ''

- 3rd place in Semi-Final'' * European Club Champions' Cup ** ''

- 2nd place in Semi-Final 1 (8 points)''

Italian Championships

** '' 2009 Italian Speedway Championship' - 1st place'' ** '' 2012 Italian Speedway Championship' - 1st place''

References