The victory of Vittorio Adorni with his arms raised in Imola’s Enzo e Dino Ferrari Racetrack, 52 years ago, has written a chapter of cycling history: his lead over the belgian rider Herman Van Springel (9 minutes and 50 seconds) is still the largest gap over a runner-up ever recorded at the UCI Elite Road World Championships.
The first of September 1968 marked a real world feat for Italy who placed five National Team athletes in the top six finishers. And another world feat is being accomplished by Italy in 2020, with the assignation of the UCI Elite Men’s and Women’s Road World Championships to Imola and Emilia-Romagna. This success is to be chalked up to the Emilia-Romagna Region, the APT Servizi Emilia-Romagna Tourism Bureau, the FCI (Italian Cycling Federation) and the Imola2020 Organizing Committee, that coordinated with CON.AMI and along with the Main Sponsor Gruppo Hera have taken on the greatest International challenge: to organize the Worlds in just a few weeks and in the most difficult year, following Aigle-Martigny’s cancellation.
We are ten days away from the World Cycling Championships, which will be held from the 24th to the 27th September. As in 1968, the hub will be Imola’s Enzo e Dino Ferrari Racetrack, a multipurpose complex which proves once again to be a premium feature of our territory and a state-ofthe-art facility which is ideal for great international sports and other events.
