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Tullio Gonnelli

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Nationality
  
Italian

Weight
  
78 kg

Club
  
Virtus Bologna

Height
  
1.84 m


Sport
  
Athletics

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Country
  
Name
  
Tullio Gonnelli

Events
  
Born
  
November 21, 1912 (
1912-11-21
)

Died
  
January 12, 2005, Hampden, Maine, United States

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

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

Personal best(s)
  
100 m: 10.5 (1938)

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Tullio Gonnelli (21 November 1912 – January 12, 2005) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He was born in Pieve di Cento, Bologna, Italy.

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Biography

He competed for 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, Gianni Caldana and Elio Ragni. Gonnelli was looking forward to competing in the 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokyo but the advent of World War II meant the cancellation of the Games and he served 3 years in the army instead. He died in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States.

National championships

Tullio Gonnelli has won 5 times the individual national championship.

  • 1 win in the 100 metres (1935)
  • 4 wins in the 200 metres (1935, 1938, 1939, 1940)
  • References

    Tullio Gonnelli Wikipedia


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