Massimo Di Giorgio

Massimo Di Giorgio
Personal information
National team	Italy 25 caps (78-83)
Born	22 March 1958 (age 66); Verona, Italy
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Club	Fiamme Oro Padova
Achievements and titles
Personal best	High jump: 2.30 m (1981);
Medal record
European Indoor Championships
European Cup
Mediterranean Games

Massimo Di Giorgio (born 22 March 1958) is a former Italian high jumper, who won three medals at senior level at the International athletics competitions.^[2]

Biography

He finished fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships,^[3] won the gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games and won a bronze medal at the 1983 European Indoor Championships. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1981 in Udine.^[4]

1980 Moscow Olympics boycott

Italian athletes serving in its military corps could not attend the Games, however, because of the national government's official support of the boycott.^[5] In 1980 Massimo Di Giorgio, like other leading Italian athletes (the swimmer Marcello Guarducci, the modern pentathlete Daniele Masala and the judoka Ezio Gamba) who in Moscow in 1980 would have had medal ambitions, could not participate in those Olympic Games because belonged to military bodies. Ezio Gamba resigned from the military body in time and was able to participate in the Games under the IOC flag, it was not so for the others.

The day when the winners of the Olympic gold medals, Pietro Mennea, Sara Simeoni and Maurizio Damilano were appointed Knights of the Italian Republic by the Italian President Sandro Pertini, Di Giorgio and Guarducci went to protest at the Quirinale because they believed that they too would have to have equal recognition.^[5]

The candidacy for President of FIDAL

In 2004, at the age of 46, Massimo di Giorgio decided to propose his candidacy as President of the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL),^[6] he was then defeated by the former Italian middle-distance runner Franco Arese.^[7]

National records

High jump: 2.25 m ( Nova Gorica, 15 April 1979)
High jump: 2.26 m ( Udine, 20 May 1979)
High jump: 2.27 m ( Bologna, 19 September 1979)
High jump: 2.29 m ( Pisa, 5 July 1980)
High jump: 2.30 m ( Udine, 15 June 1981) since 21 July 1988 (Luca Toso sets 2.32 m)^[8]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
1979	European Indoor Championships	Vienna	9th	High jump	2.18 m
	European Cup	Turin	4th	High jump	2.24 m
	Mediterranean Games	Split	1st	High jump	2.26 m	CR
1981	European Cup	Zagreb	3rd	High jump	2.26 m
1981	World Cup	Rome	6th	High jump	2.15 m	^{[note 1]}
1982	European Indoor Championships	Milan	8th	High jump	2.22 m
1983	European Indoor Championships	Budapest	3rd	High jump	2.27 m	PB ^{[note 2]}

National titles

Massimo Di Giorgio has won 7 times the individual national championship.^[9]^[10]

Italian Athletics Championships
- High jump: 1979, 1980, 1982 (3)
Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
- High jump: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983 (4)

Notes

^ At the fiisrt edion of the IAAF World Cup the Italy team was invited as the organizing country.
^ Ex-aequo with the Polish Mirosław Włodarczyk.

References

^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 173.
^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
^ 1978 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final
^ "Italian all-time list, men's high jump (last updated 2000)" (in Italian). digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Ad un salto dalla gloria, Massimo Di Giorgio e le Olimpiadi negate di Mosca" (in Italian). udinetoday.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ "Di Giorgio si candida alla presidenza Fidal" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ "Franco Arese è il nuovo presidente FIDAL" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 566.
^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

External links

Massimo Di Giorgio at World Athletics

[first-9] At the fiisrt edion of the IAAF World Cup the Italy team was invited as the organizing country.

[second-10] Ex-aequo with the Polish Mirosław Włodarczyk.

[1] Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 173.

[2] "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

[3] 1978 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final

[4] "Italian all-time list, men's high jump (last updated 2000)" (in Italian). digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 28 July 2019.

[BOYCOTT-5] "Ad un salto dalla gloria, Massimo Di Giorgio e le Olimpiadi negate di Mosca" (in Italian). udinetoday.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.

[6] "Di Giorgio si candida alla presidenza Fidal" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.

[7] "Franco Arese è il nuovo presidente FIDAL" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 3 October 2019.

[8] Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009. p. 566.

[11] ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

[12] "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

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