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Full name
  
Giacinto Caldana

Club
  
Giglio Rosso Firenze

Height
  
1.8 m

Nationality
  
Italian

Name
  
Gianni Caldana

Weight
  
70 kg

Country
  
Italy

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Events
  
Sprint

Sport
  
Athletics

Died
  
September 6, 1995


Born
  
19 November 1913 (
1913-11-19
)
Vicenza, Italy

Personal best(s)
  
110 m hs: 14.7 (1940) Long jump: 7.50 m (1936)

Silver medals
  
Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Similar People
  
Orazio Mariani, Jesse Owens, Frank Wykoff, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper

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Gianni Caldana (19 November 1913 – 6 September 1995) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.

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Biography

He competed for an Italy in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Orazio Mariani, Elio Ragni and Tullio Gonnelli.

National championships

Gianni Caldana has won 5 times the individual national championship.

  • 5 wins in the 110 metres hurdles (1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940)
  • References

    Gianni Caldana Wikipedia