Alessandro Pezzatini
Appearance
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Nationality | Italian | ||||||||
Born | Fiesole, Italy | 25 August 1957||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
Event | Racewalking | ||||||||
Club | ASSI Giglio Rosso G.S. Fiamme Gialle | ||||||||
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Alessandro Pezzatini (born 25 August 1957 in Fiesole, Province of Florence) is a retired male race walker from Italy.
Biography
[edit]He set his personal best on the 20 km walk in 1984 with a time of 1:20.18 (the time is still the best performance Italian 7th all-time),[1] obtaining the qualification for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles where, however, he could not repeat that time and was ranked 28th with a time of 12.1 minutes over that.
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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1981 | World Race Walking Cup | ![]() |
3rd | 20 km | ||
1982 | European Championships | ![]() |
5th | 20 km | ||
1983 | World Championships | ![]() |
24th | 20 km | ||
1984 | Olympic Games | ![]() |
28th | 20 km | ||
1985 | World Race Walking Cup | ![]() |
15th | 20 km |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "LISTE ITALIANE ALL TIME" (PDF) (in Italian). fidal.it. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
External links
[edit]- Alessandro Pezzatini at World Athletics
- Alessandro Pezzatini at Olympics.com
- Alessandro Pezzatini at Olympedia
- Alessandro Pezzatini at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
Categories:
- 1957 births
- Living people
- People from Fiesole
- Italian male racewalkers
- Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Florence
- 20th-century Italian sportspeople