Salvatore Morale

Salvatore Morale (* November 4, 1938 in Teolo, Padua ) is an Italian former athlete and Olympic of third parties.

Missed Ironically, at the 1960 Olympic Games at home in Rome Salvatore Morale by a hundredth of a second place in the final of the 400 - meter hurdles race. In 1960 the last time an Olympic final was played on a track with only six tracks, that is, with all games after that he would have entered the finals in fourth semi-final of his ( to the sixth best total time).

A year later, Morale then 49.7 s a European record. At the European Championships 1962 in Belgrade Morale then reached the zenith of his powers and was 49.2 s European Championship, where he set the world record by Glenn Davis. With the Italian 4-by- 400 - meter relay team took fifth place Morale in the European Championship Final.

Two years later at the Olympic Games in 1964 reached Morale but then an Olympic Final. It won the American Rex Cawley, who had one month before the games improved the world record to 49.1 s. Cawley was unchallenged at 49.6 s, 50.1 s behind it lay, each with almost equal the Briton John Cooper and just Morale, which so came to an Olympic bronze medal. After the Games in 1964 Morale no longer went to.

Salvatore Morale was not a power runner, but stylistically convincing especially in the hurdle crossing. He had a size of 1.86 m, a competition weight of 75 kg.