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Luca Toso

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Nationality
  
Italian

Height
  
1.90 m

Country
  
Italy

Weight
  
77 kg

Name
  
Luca Toso

Events
  
High jump

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Born
  
February 15, 1964 (age 60) (
1964-02-15
)
Tavagnacco, Italy

Personal best(s)
  
High jump: 2.32 m (1988)

Club
  
Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro

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Luca Toso (born 15 February 1964 in Tavagnacco, Udine) is a retired Italian high jumper. He won two medals at the International athletics competitions.

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Biography

He finished tenth at the 1983 World Championships and the 1985 World Indoor Games, thirteenth at the 1988 Olympic Games and ninth at the 1990 European Championships. At the Mediterranean Games he won silver medals in 1987 and 1991. He also competed at the 1987 World Championships without reaching the final.

His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in July 1988 in Turin. This was the Italian record until September 1989, when Marcello Benvenuti broke it by one centimetre.

National records

  • High jump: 2.30 m ( Padua, 13 June 1988)
  • High jump: 2.32 m ( Turin, 21 July 1988)
  • National championships

    Luca Toso has won 3 times the individual national championship.

  • 2 wins in high jump (1982, 1988)
  • 1 win in high jump indoor (1992)
  • References

    Luca Toso Wikipedia