Guido Messina (4 January 1931 – 10 January 2020) was an Italian

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and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. He was born in Monreale,

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, 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 The 1955 Giro d'Italia was the 38th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Milan on 14 May with a flat stage and concluded back in Milan with a relatively flat mass-start stage on 5 June. Fourtee ...

. He died six days after his 89th birthday on 10 January 2020.

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* * 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 {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub