FANTONI Giacomo

CYCLING BMX RACING

World Championships

Year	Location	Men
2019	Heusden-Zolder, BEL	45
2018	Baku, AZE	63
2012	Birmingham, GBR	76
2011	Copenhagen, DEN	88
2010	Pietermaritzburg, RSA	33

European Championships

Year	Location	Men
2019	Valmiera, LAT	36
2018	Glasgow, GBR	51

UCI BMX Supercross - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2021	Men	-	1 x 6th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 19th
2020	Men	60th	1 x 44th, 1 x 54th, 1 x 60th
2019	Men	68th	1 x 22nd, 1 x 35th, 1 x 43rd
2018	Men	61st	1 x 37th, 1 x 42nd, 1 x 44th

UCI BMX Supercross - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
6	2021	Men	Bogota, COL
7	2021	Men	Bogota, COL
19	2021	Men	Verona, ITA
22	2019	Men	Santiago del Estero, ARG
27	2021	Men	Verona, ITA
35	2019	Men	Manchester, GBR
37	2018	Men	Santiago del Estero, ARG
42	2018	Men	Santiago del Estero, ARG
43	2019	Men	Santiago del Estero, ARG
44	2020	Men	Bathurst, NSW, AUS
44	2018	Men	Heusden-Zolder, BEL

Legend
IP - In Progress, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE

World Championships

Year	Location	4-Cross
2018	Val di Sole, ITA	10
2017	Val di Sole, ITA	11
2016	Val di Sole, ITA	21

Legend
IP - In Progress, XCO - Cross-country, X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Animals, space, mountain biking, snowboarding, basketball. (tokyo2020.coni.it, 01 Jan 2021; Facebook page, 25 Nov 2020; Instagram profile, 30 Jan 2021; pumptrack.com, 01 Apr 2019)

Athlete

University of Verona, Italy

Partner Silvia Turri

English, French, Italian

Team BMX Verona [Italy]

Tommaso Lupi

His mother Linda Spiazzi represented Italy in downhill mountain biking at the world championships in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1995. (tokyo2020.coni.it, 01 Jan 2021; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Jul 2021)

He took up BMX as a youngster at the Montorio track in Verona, Italy. (tokyo2020.coni.it, 01 Jan 2021)

He was influenced by his mother, who was a competitive mountain biker. (tokyo2020.coni.it, 01 Jan 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 05 Jun 2021)

"I alternate between training sessions at the velodrome to improve speed, on the road and with the mountain bike on the trails to enhance endurance, and then there is the gym." (larena.it, 02 Apr 2020)

"I am a classic super-competitive guy who doesn't like to lose in anything." (pumptrack.com, 01 Apr 2019)