Nino Borsari

Nino Borsari (14 December 1911 – 31 March 1996) was an Italian cyclist who won a gold medal in the 4000 metres team pursuit event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

According to his biographer Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien, his "early years were spent in poverty, but the gift of a racing bicycle by a benevolent employer changed his life".

He won a gold medal in the 4,000-metre team pursuit event and returned to Italy via New York City, where he competed in track cycling at Madison Square Garden.

[2] In 1934, Borsari traveled to Australia to compete in the Centenary 1000, one-week road bicycle race over seven stages covering 1,102 miles (1,773 km).

Gay and laughing always, he does not appear to view the contest with any trepidation and, frankly, on his mileage to date, I feel that he will not figure prominently early.

[2] Borsari continued to cycle semi-professionally and also competed in motor racing, acting as the local agent for Cisitalia sports cars.

[2] Borsari was made a knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1962 for his "his keen and energetic promotion of Italo-Australian Associations of a sporting and recreational character".