Marco Galiazzo

Marco Galiazzo ( born May 7, 1983 in Padua ) is an Italian archer with the recurve bow and Olympic champion of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Marco Galiazzo won the bronze medal with the team at the world championships in archery, 2003 in New York City. A year later he won the individual title at the European Championships in Brussels, in the same year followed by the gold medal in the singles of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his greatest success. He defeated in the final of the Japan's Hiroshi Yamamoto with 111 to 109 in Athens reached Marco Galiazzo also finished seventh with the team. At the 2007 World Championships in Leipzig Galiazzo Sixtieth was in singles, with the team he reached number five. In the same year he was also able to achieve a second place at the World Cup in Ulsan and a first place at the World Cup in Dover with the team. He belonged to the Italian squad for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, where he won the silver medal with the team and took in singles. The Placement Round the Individual Contest survived Galiazzo twelfth, but then failed in the Round of 32 at the British Alan Wills with 110 to 109 in October 2009 Galiazzo won the World Cup Grand Final Gold in Copenhagen Nyhavn just before the British Simon Terry, this put him in the world rankings at number three. He had been able to continuously improve in the world rankings before 2006 and was temporarily world ranking first with the recurve bow, last on 13 May 2006. In 2012, he again took part in the Olympics and won along with Michele Frangilli and Mauro Nespoli gold in the men's rating.

Galiazzo studied telecommunications at the University of Padua and worked as a development engineer at Applied Materials.