Angelo Ciccone (born 7 July 1980) is an Italian amateur road and track cyclist.[2] He has claimed four Italian national championship titles in track cycling (
omnium,
madison, and points race), and later represented his nation Italy in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Ciccone currently races for the 2013 season with Cycling Team Friuli under his head coach Roberto Bressan.[1]
Ciccone competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, where he scored a total of forty-nine points (the victor got ninety-three) to grab the eighth spot in the
men's points race.[3] In that same year, Ciccone also claimed a silver medal in men's
omnium at the
European Championships in
Valencia, Spain, and eventually collected his first two Italian national championship titles in both team pursuit and
madison.[4][5]
At the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing, Ciccone qualified for his second Italian squad, as a 28-year-old, in two track cycling events by receiving an automatic berth from
UCI based on his top-ten performance in the Track World Rankings.[6] In the
men's points race, held on the second day of the program, Ciccone picked up a total of eight points without receiving an extra lap to score a thirteenth place in a 25-km, 10-lap sprint race.[7][8] Teaming with
Fabio Masotti in
men's Madison three days later, Ciccone started out a 50 km, sixteen-sprint race for the Italian duo by taking the lap first over the entire field, but did not receive a single point and lost three laps in all sprints, dropping him and his partner off to fourteenth place.[9][10][11]
Four years later, at the
2012 European Championships in
Panevėžys,
Lithuania, Ciccone and his new partner
Elia Viviani scored twenty points to end his eight-year medal drought with a bronze in
men's Madison, finishing ahead of Swiss duo Tristan Marguet and Silvan Dilier by a three-point margin.[12]