Gerolamo Quaglia

Gerolamo Quaglia ( born February 8, 1902 in São Paulo, Brazil, † November 11, 1985 in Genoa ) was an Italian wrestler. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at featherweight at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

Career

Gerolamo Quaglia grew up in São Paulo. As his family, who had emigrated to Brazil, returned to Italy, he was a resident of Genoa. There he learned as a teenager in high school, Christopher Columbus wrestling. In 1922 he was drafted into the army and was stationed in Cagliari in Sardinia. About Palermo he came back a little later to Genoa and was a member of the Sports Association Societa Andrea Doria of Genoa.

1922 Gerolamo Quaglia was Italian champion in Greco-Roman wrestling at featherweight for the first time. This title he also won in 1923 and 1925. 1924 he took part in the Olympic Games in Paris. He lost there but his two fights at featherweight and was only on the 16th Place.

1925 found the European Championships in Greco -Roman style in Milan. Gerolamo Quaglia came there with a victory and defeats Erik Malmberg from Sweden and Jenő Németh from Hungary featherweight to fifth place.

The climax in the career of Gerolamo Quaglia were the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. After victories over John Nolten junior from the Netherlands and Benjamin Esteves Araujo from Portugal, he was defeated by Károly Kárpáti from Hungary and Erik Malmberg, both wrestlers who were in their career Olympic champion, but came in third place and thus won a bronze medal.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, then to 62 kg body weight)

Italian Championships

Gerolamo Quaglia was Italian champion in Greco-Roman featherweight in the years 1922, 1923 and 1925.

Swell

  • Documentation of Internal Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
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