CYCLIST

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido Messina has received more than 27,191 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Guido Messina is the 107th most popular cyclist (down from 62nd in 2019).

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Guido Messina ranks 107 out of 1,613Before him are Jean Aerts, Josef Fischer, Dino Bruni, Giovanni Brunero, Julián Berrendero, and Michel Pollentier. After him are Marino Basso, Pedro Delgado, Alexander Vinokourov, Francesco Camusso, Marcel Kint, and Rudolph Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Guido Messina ranks 300Before him are Fay Weldon, Dorothy Stang, Elias M. Stein, Willie Mays, Irwin Winkler, and Shunichiro Okano. After him are Cemal Süreya, Klaus Rifbjerg, Kenny Burrell, Vlastimil Bubník, Phil Woods, and Dorian Gray. Among people deceased in 2020, Guido Messina ranks 323Before him are Hamed Karoui, Robert Herbin, Mark Blum, Kuniwo Nakamura, Jack Sherman, and Tony Allen. After him are Henri Richard, Paula Kelly, Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Leon Fleisher, and Goyo Benito.

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