Amelia Piccinini
Appearance
Personal information | |
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National team | Italy: 28 (1937-1954)[1] |
Born | Alessandria, Italy[2] | 20 January 1917
Died | 3 April 1979 Turin, Italy[1] | (aged 62)
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
Club | Venchi Unica Torino |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 13.39 m (1949) |
Medal record |
Amelia Piccinini (20 January 1917 – 3 April 1979) was an Italian athlete[3] and before footballer.[4]
She won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.[5]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Measure | Notes |
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1938 | European Championships | Vienna | Shot put | 9th | 11.30 m | |
1946 | European Championships | Oslo | Shot put | 3rd | 12.21 m | |
Long jump | 4th | 5.28 m | ||||
1948 | Olympic Games | Londra | Shot put | 2nd | 13.095 m | |
1950 | European Championships | Brussels | Shot put | 7th | 12.40 m |
National titles
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Annuario FIDAL 2010" (PDF). altervista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "INTITOLAZIONE DI UN PIAZZALE AD AMELIA PICCININI". altervista.org (in Italian). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Amelia Piccinini". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ "Amelia Piccinini, da calciatrice a campione d'Italia di pentathlon" (PDF). calciodonna.it (in Italian). 28 August 1937. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
External links
[edit]- Amelia Piccinini at Olympics.com
- Amelia Piccinini at Olympedia
- Amelia Piccinini at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1979 deaths
- Italian female pentathletes
- Italian female long jumpers
- Italian female shot putters
- Italian women's footballers
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Athletes from Turin
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Italian Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Italian women