Amelia_Piccinini

Amelia Piccinini

Amelia Piccinini

Italian shot putter

Amelia Piccinini (20 January 1917 – 3 April 1979) was an Italian athlete[3] and before footballer.[4]

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She won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.[5]

Career

She competed for Italy at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, England, where she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put event.

In 1946 at the European Championships she won the bronze medal in the shot put and finished four in the long jump.

Achievements

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National titles

Amelia Piccinini has won 20 times consecutively the individual national championship.[6]

  • 4 wins in the long jump (1939, 1940, 1943, 1946)
  • 12 wins in the shot put (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954)
  • 4 wins in the pentathlon (1937, 1946, 1947, 1948)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Annuario FIDAL 2010" (PDF). altervista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  2. [2]
    "INTITOLAZIONE DI UN PIAZZALE AD AMELIA PICCININI". altervista.org (in Italian). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Amelia Piccinini". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. [4]
    "Amelia Piccinini, da calciatrice a campione d'Italia di pentathlon" (PDF). calciodonna.it (in Italian). 28 August 1937. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  5. [5]
    "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  6. [6]
    ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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