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Guido Messina

1931 - 2020

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Guido Messina (4 January 1931 – 10 January 2020) was an Italian road and track cyclist. He was born in Monreale, Italy, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guido Messina is the 59th most popular cyclist (up from 107th in 2019). (up from 3,397th in 2019)

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Among cyclists, Guido Messina ranks 59 out of 1,613. Before him are Romain Maes, Gastone Nencini, Henry Hansen, Roger Walkowiak, Stan Ockers, and Ercole Baldini. After him are Briek Schotte, Fiorenzo Magni, Erik De Vlaeminck, Herman Van Springel, Josef Fischer, and Lucien Buysse.

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Among people born in 1931, Guido Messina ranks 214. Before him are Ita Ever, Tommy Lapid, Dritëro Agolli, Takashi Ono, Tom Wesselmann, and Manolo Escobar. After him are George Baker, Klas Lestander, Fred Brooks, Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, and Andrew Hill. Among people deceased in 2020, Guido Messina ranks 230. Before him are Millie Small, José Bonaparte, McCoy Tyner, Jack Sherman, Dyanne Thorne, and Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. After him are Rishi Kapoor, Nexhmije Pagarusha, Pierre Buyoya, Mario Corso, Gisèle Halimi, and Zindzi Mandela.

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