Sandro Floris

Sandro Floris ( born June 12, 1965 in Cagliari ) is an Italian former athlete, who specialized in the 200 -meter run.

Career

His first try at the Olympic Games had the 1.78 m and 73 kg sprinter of the GS Fiamma azzure Roma in 1988 in Seoul. There, he finished with the Italian 4-by- 100 - meter relay in the final fifth. The following year he reached the fifth and at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest fourth place over 200 meters at the Indoor Athletics Championships in The Hague. He was also 1989 Italian over the same distance champion.

In 1990, Floris at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow with a time of 21.01 s the gold medal in the 200 -meter run. A good six months later he started outdoors at the European Athletics Championships in Split. The Italian 4 x 100 - meter relay team won there in the lineup Mario Longo, Madonia Ezio, Sandro Floris and Stefano Tilli with a time of 38.39 s the bronze medal behind the teams from France ( 37.79 s, the then world record ) and the UK ( 37.98 s ). In the 200 - meter race in Split Floris took eighth place. In 1991 he reached at the IAAF World Championships in Tokyo with the relay and won fifth place at the Mediterranean Games in Athens, the bronze medal over 200 m.

1994 Floris was Italian champion in the 100 -meter run. In the same year he again won the bronze medal in the relay at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. The Italians reached the target in the lineup Ezio Madonia, Domenico Netti, Giorgio Marras and Sandro Floris with a time of 38.99 s behind France ( 38.57 s ) and Ukraine ( 38.98 s ).

His most significant success in the 4 x 100 - meter relay Floris celebrated at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995. In the table Puggioni Giovanni, Ezio Madonia Angelo Cipolloni and Sandro Floris the Italian team finished with a time of 39.07 s in third place behind the seasons of Canada ( 38.31 s ) and Australia ( 38.50 s ). At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, however, Floris different from both the relay and in the 200 -meter run in the preliminary round. His last international success was winning the gold medal in the relay at the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Bari. The European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, he only reached eighth place in the relay.

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