Pierfrancesco Pavoni
Pierfrancesco Pavoni ( born February 21, 1963 in Rome ) is an Italian former athlete who with the 4 x 100 - meter relay team won the silver medal at the World Championships in 1983.
Sporting career
In his first international championships, the European Indoor Championships in Milan in 1982 Pavoni finished in 6.68 s fourth place in the 60 - meter dash and missed the bronze medal by only two hundredths of a second. In the outdoor season in 1982 Pavoni won at the Italian Championships in the 100 -meter run. At the European Championships in 1982 in Athens Pavoni won in 10.25 s the silver medal behind Frank Emmelmann from the GDR, the Italian sprint relay finished second in 38.96 s fourth place. 1983 defended his Pavoni Italian championship. At the World Championships in Helsinki Pavoni difference of more than 100 meters in the quarterfinals. In relay races were for the first time in track history, all seasons under 39 seconds; Season with Italian Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni and Pietro Mennea improved in 38.37 s the Italian record and won the silver medal from the Soviet relay, only the Americans were half a second ahead and set a new world record.
1984 Pavoni had a weaker season, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he retired about 100 meters from the flow; in the season he did not play. 1985 Pavoni tried in the 400 -meter run and won on this track at the Italian Championships. The following year, Pavoni joined the European Championships 1986 in Stuttgart in 200 -meter run, but bowed out of. With the season he finished fifth.
1987 won Pavoni after 1985 his second Italian Hall championship over 60 meters. At the European Indoor Championships 1987 in Liévin he finished in 6.58 s second place behind Poland's Marian Woronin. Two weeks later he won at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis in 6.59 s bronze behind two Americans. In the outdoor season 1987 Pavoni won at the Italian championships on both short sprint distances. At the season's peak, the World Championships in Rome, Pavoni reached the finals three times and finished in seventh place, respectively.
At the European Indoor Championships in 1988 in Budapest Pavoni again reached the finals and finished in 6.64 s fifth. In the outdoor season, Pavoni qualified as 1984 for the Olympic Games. In Seoul, he reached the quarter-finals in the 100 meters, the Italian season with Ezio Madonia, Sandro Floris, Pierfrancesco Pavoni and Stefano Tilli in the finals, finishing in 38.54 s fifth. In 1989, Pavoni as 1987 both in the European Indoor Championships as well as at the World Indoor Championships. In The Hague, he finished in 6.62 s fourth place at the European Championships, two weeks later he was at the World Championships in Budapest the best European and won in 6.61 s bronze behind the Cubans Andrés Simón and the Ghanaian John Myles - Mills. At the European Indoor Championships in 1990 in Glasgow Pavoni ran 6.59 s and won silver behind the Briton Linford Christie. At the European Championships in 1990 in Split Pavoni difference of more than 100 meters in the flow, in the season he did not play.
At a height of 1.82 m his competition weight was 70 kg. He started for Pro Patria Pierrel / Pro Patria Osama Milano.