Adolfo Consolini
Adolfo Consolini ( born January 5, 1917 in Costermano, Verona, † December 20, 1969 in Milan ) was an Italian athlete who was in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, a world leader in the discus. The 1.80 m wide and 105 -pound athlete improved three world records and was able to at five European championships and four Olympic Games, four gold and win a silver medal.
Career
Adolfo Consolini was the son of a farmer. After graduating from elementary school, he worked in his parents' farm with. At the age of twelve he started with athletics. When he took part in a competition in the stone throwing distance, the head of the local sports club noticed him. In order to promote the talented boy, he gave him a job as a handyman, while devoting enough time for systematic training. Adolfo Consolinis first official competition were the Italian Junior Championships in 1937, where he won the title at first attempt. Two years later he won the first of a total of 15 national champion titles, after he had in 1938 occupies a remarkable fifth place in his first European Championships.
The war did not interrupt his career. In the fall of 1941, he threw a world record, which for five years had on hand, until he improved it in the first year after the war itself, and thus was considered a favorite for the European Championships in Oslo. There he won superior to almost three meters ahead of the runner-up, his teammate Giuseppe Tosi. Two years later, at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, the order was the same: Consolini won gold and silver Tosi. In their national anthem, however, waive the two Italians had, since the needle with the famous Mameli Hymn ( L' Inno di Mameli ) had been lost.
In the fifties, Adolfo Consolini won two more European titles and Olympic silver. 1960 in Rome, he said, the Olympic oath. Then took the now 43 -year-old, who had recently become more Italian masters, to the regular competitor and placed himself honorably as Seventeenth - Of a width that twelve years ago was only a few inches below his victories width in London.
Services
Title and placements
- European Championships 1938 in Paris: Fifth with 48.02 m ( width victories of the German Willy Schroeder: 49,70 m)
- European Championships 1946 in Oslo: GOLD with 53.23 meters ahead of his compatriot Giuseppe Tosi with 50,39 m and the Finn Veikko Nyqvist with 48.14 m
- XIV Summer Olympic Games in London in 1948: GOLD with 52.78 meters ahead of his compatriot Giuseppe Tosi with 51,78 m and the American Fortune Gordien with 50.77 m.
- European Championships 1950 in Brussels: GOLD with 53.75 meters ahead of his compatriot Giuseppe Tosi with 52.31 m and the Finns Olavi Partanen with 48.69 m
- XV. Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952: SILVER with 53,78 m behind Sim Iness with 55.03 m and 53.28 m in front of James Dillion with both USA
- European Championships 1954 in Bern: GOLD with 53.44 meters ahead of his compatriot Giuseppe Tosi with 52,34 m and 51,88 m with Hungary József Szécsényi
- XVI. Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956: Sixth with 52,21 m ( width victories of the American Al Oerter: 56,36 m)
- European Championships 1958 in Stockholm: sixth with 53.05 m (Victory width of Poland Edmund Piątkowski: 53,92 m)
- XVII. Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960: Seventeenth with 52,44 m ( width victories of the American Al Oerter: 59,18 m)
World Records
- 53.34 m on October 26, 1941 in Milan
- 54.23 m in Milan (two months later by the American Robert Fitch improved) on April 14, 1946
- 55.33 m on October 10, 1948 in Milan ( in the following year improved by the American Fortune Gordien )