A year after relegation they immediately recovered without losing a match. The Piedmontese club, founded in 1894, dominated Volo’s Serie A2 Final Four: 17-7 against Pasch in the last act
Pinerolo celebrates a new chapter of sporting glory: Veloce Club Pinerolo returns to Serie A after an impeccable season, which ended without defeats and with promotion. The Piedmontese team, one year after relegation, demonstrated character, technique and determination, achieving a result that strengthens its more than one hundred year history.
a history spanning over a century
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An achievement that takes on an even deeper value if read in light of the club’s over one hundred year history. The Veloce Club Pinerolo was in fact born in 1894, in an Italy where organized sport was still in its infancy, experienced as an innovative association and place of social aggregation. Founded by just 17 members, the association immediately stood out for its multi-sport vocation: from cycling – already referred to in the name “Veloce” – to fencing, from shooting to wrestling, up to bowling, a discipline destined over time to become its driving force.
the applause of fib
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The president of the Italian Bowls Federation, Roberto Favre, also underlined the importance of the objective achieved: “I would like to extend my most sincere congratulations to the Veloce Club Pinerolo for the victory in the Serie A2 Final Four of the Volo specialty and for the well-deserved promotion to Serie A. This is an important result, which takes on even greater value because it represents a return to the top championship, the result of commitment, technical quality and great team spirit. To all the athletes, the staff and the club congratulations from the Federation for this prestigious achievement.”
dominated final
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In the final the Veloce Club prevailed 17-7 against Pasch, immediately directing the match. Ahead 6-2 after the traditional first round, the Piedmontese built their lead thanks to successes in the combined, pairs and triples. Identical partial in the quick games, with further victories in the relay, in the technical shooting and in the progressive, before definitively closing the accounts in the traditional finals, winning the decisive point in the trio and interrupting the other tests early. In the semi-final there was a difficult success against Villaraspa, which they overcame in the play-offs, while Pasch eliminated Carcare.
decided path
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At the end of the match, president Giorgio Reusa expressed his joy at the goal achieved: “We are happy, promotion was an objective we had set ourselves even if it wasn’t easy to get there. We saw it throughout the season and in particular in these last two matches. Against Villaraspa we had to reach the play-offs to go through and the final against Pasch was also challenging, a team with many top-quality players within it. Furthermore, we end the season undefeated and this is another reason of pride for our society”.
city institution
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Over the course of its long history, the Veloce Club has built its identity well beyond simple sporting results, becoming a true city institution. Already in the first decades of the twentieth century the association grew rapidly, counting hundreds of members and moving in the 1920s to the historic headquarters immersed in the greenery of Piazza Santa Croce, still the beating heart of the club’s life today. Here a unique dimension develops, in which sport, culture and sociality intertwine: competitions, events, public initiatives and moments of aggregation contribute to making the Veloce Club a stable point of reference for the Pinerolo community. It is no coincidence that, on the occasion of the 125 years since its foundation, the club wanted to celebrate its history with an exhibition dedicated to cycling and the deep bond with the city, retracing through images, documents and memorabilia the great sporting pages that have marked Pinerolo and the Veloce Club itself, starting from the epic stages of the Giro d’Italia. An initiative that demonstrates the desire to preserve and enhance one’s memory, transforming it into shared heritage.
the myth of cycling
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Emblematic is precisely this intense bond with cycling and with the Giro d’Italia, which saw the city protagonist of some of the most iconic pages in the history of the race. In particular, the 1949 stage, with arrival in Pinerolo, has entered into legend for the extraordinary feat of Fausto Coppi, capable of imposing himself after an epic escape on the great Alpine climbs, in one of the most famous actions in Italian sport. An episode that consecrated not only the champion, but also the city and the Veloce Club as symbols of a heroic era, strengthening an intimate connection with the history of national sport. Progressively, however, bowls managed to gain ground, establishing itself as the main discipline, thanks to constant activity, the development of dedicated facilities and the ability to host competitions of national importance. The club thus consolidates itself as one of the most significant realities of the Italian bowling scene, maintaining over time a strong identity and a presence rooted in the territory. It is precisely this continuity, crossing eras and transformations, that makes it a deeply recognizable reality, capable of maintaining a strong and shared identity over time.
success all round
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Veloce Club Pinerolo thus returns to the top flight at the end of an impeccable journey, demonstrating solidity, quality and character. A promotion built day after day, until the perfect epilogue of the Final Four. A success that not only represents a sporting result, but also the coherence of a history spanning over 130 years: that of a club capable of renewing itself, while at the same time remaining a sporting, social and cultural point of reference for the entire community.
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