Puccio Pucci (lawyer)
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Italian |
| Born | 12 April 1904 Florence |
| Died | 1985 Pomezia |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Italy |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Middle-distance running |
| Club | Giglio Rosso Firenze |
Puccio Pucci (12 April 1904 – 1985) was an Italian athlete (middle-distance runner), lawyer and sports official.[1]
Biography
Puccio Pucci competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics,.[2] He was the son of the notary Pietro Pucci, a former director of the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera and of the FIDAL he was general secretary from 1931 to 1938.[3] He who was killed in Libya during the Second World War. As right-hand-man to Alessandro Pavolini, the secretary of the Partito Fascista Repubblicano, Puccio helped form the infamous Black Brigades.
Upon the Armistice, on 18 March 1944 he was made president of the Italian National Olympic Committee on the basis of his experience with FIDAL.[4] After many months in post, he was definitively removed from the national sporting movement of the kingdom of the south, officially from 28 June 1944, when presidente del consiglio of free Italy Ivanoe Bonomi appointed commissario Giulio Onesti.
References
- ^ "10,000 Countrymen Give the Italian Team Rousing Welcome on Arrival in Los Angeles". New York Times. July 18, 1932. p. 16. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ "Italy Athletics at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ "I Segretari Generali della FIDAL nella storia" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ "I presidenti nei 100 anni di CONI". rivistaaccademiamds.wordpress.com. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
External links
- Puccio Pucci at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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