Nationality Italian Height 1.87 m Role Olympic athlete | Name Agnese Maffeis Country Italy Events Discus throw, Shot put | |
Born March 9, 1965 (age 59) ( 1965-03-09 ) Bergamo, Italy Personal best(s) Shot put 17.76 m (1998)
Discus throw: 63.66 m (1996) Club Societa Sportiva Metanopoli | ||
Agnese Maffeis (born 9 March 1965, in Bergamo) is an Italian discus thrower and shot putter. She won six medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
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She has 73 caps in national team from 1981 to 2003, second Italian athlete of all-time behind Marisa Masullo that have 79 caps.
Biography
She finished twelfth at the 1989 World Indoor Championships and eighth at the 1997 World Championships. She also competed in the 1996 Olympics, but failed to qualify from her pool. At the Mediterranean Games she won gold medals in shot put in 1987 and 1993 and in discus in 1991 and 1993. She won a silver medal in shot put in 1991 and in discus in 2001.
Her personal best throw currently stands at 63.66 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Milan. She is married to Alessandro Andrei.
National championships
Agnese Maffeis has won 38 times the individual national championship (Italian all-time record-woman).