Vittorio Marcelli

Vittorio Marcelli ( born June 3, 1944 in Magliano de ' Marsi, Italy ) is a former Italian cyclist. He became world amateur champion in the individual road race in 1968.

Sports career

Marcelli was as amateur young rider coach Giovanni Proietti for cycling club GS Ferrarelle brought to Rome. The club was in Italian cycling as a talent factory. Later Marcelli joined the club pedals Ravennate to Ravenna, where he was preparing for coach Oscar Minzoni to the Road Cycling World Championships in 1967 and the Olympics in 1968. 1967 launched the 23 -year-old 1,85 m large Marcelli first in the Tour de l' Avenir and was overall in 13th at the World Cup 1967 he was part of the Italy - four, who reached the third place in the 100 -km team time trial. The highlight of his cycling career was the cycling world championship in 1968, when was the individual race in the Amateur World Champion and came again in the team time trial in third place. In the 1968 Olympics Marcelli has also been used in the team time trial and brought here with the Italian team to third place and the bronze medal.

After the cycling season 1968 Marcelli joined the professional paddock, where he joined the Italian cycling team Sanson joined. He began his professional career in 1969 with the participation in the Giro della Toscana -day race, in which he reached the 23th place among 47 drivers evaluated. During the subsequent one-day races Coppa Bernocchi it was enough under 102 runners only to rank 68th In 1969 Giro d'Italia Marcelli ended up with 64th place again only in the last third of the field. The only podium of the season in 1969 with a noteworthy event was second place in the time trial in the Italian Grand Prix Forli Forli. 1970 transferred to the Italian team Salvarani Marcelli, where among other things also the winner of the Tour de France and the Giro d' Italia was under contract. Were known Marc Ellis 117th place at the Tour de France and 35th at the Grand Prix of Montelupo Fiorentino. In the same year he was forced to retire due to a knee injury sustained competitive sports.