- Maurizio Damilano
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Medal record
Maurizio DamilanoMen's athletics Competitor for Italy
Olympic Games Gold 1980 Moscow 20 km walk Bronze 1984 Los Angeles 20 km walk Bronze 1988 Seoul 20 km walk World Championships Gold 1987 Rome 20 km walk Gold 1991 Tokyo 20 km walk World Indoor Championship Silver 1985 Paris 5,000 m European Championships Silver 1986 Stuttgart 20 km walk European Indoor Championships Gold 1982 Milan 5,000 m Silver 1981 Grenoble 5,000 m Mediterranean Games Gold 1983 Casablanca 20 km walk Gold 1987 Latakia 20 km walk Gold 1991 Athens 20 km walk Universiade Gold 1981 Bucharest 20 km walk Maurizio Damilano (born 6 April 1957 in Scarnafigi, Italy) is an Italian former race walker.
He was the 1980 Olympic Champion and the 1987 and 1991 World Champion in the 20 km race walk.
Damilano is also the world record holder of the 30 km race walk with the time of 2:01:44.1, achieved in Cuneo in 1992.
References
- IAAF profile for Maurizio Damilano
- Sports Reference
- Euro Legends feature article from European Athletics
Olympic Champions in Men's 20 km Walk 1956: Leonid Spirin (URS) • 1960: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) • 1964: Ken Matthews (GBR) • 1968: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) • 1972: Peter Frenkel (GDR) • 1976: Daniel Bautista (MEX) • 1980: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX) • 1988: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) • 1992: Daniel Plaza (ESP) • 1996: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) • 2000: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) • 2004: Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) • 2008: Valeriy Borchin (RUS)
World Champions in Men's 20 km Walk 1983: Ernesto Canto (MEX) • 1987: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1991: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1993: Valentí Massana (ESP) • 1995: Michele Didoni (ITA) • 1997: Daniel García (ESP) • 1999: Ilya Markov (RUS) • 2001: Roman Rasskazov (RUS) • 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) • 2005: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) • 2007: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) • 2009: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) • 2011: Valeriy Borchin (RUS)
Mediterranean Champions in Men's Race Walking After the 1955 Mediterranean Games the 10 km (track) was scratched and replaced by the 20 km (road) 20 km 1951: Giuseppe Dordoni (ITA) • 1955: Giuseppe Dordoni (ITA) • 1959: Georges Attané (FRA) • 1963: Not Held • 1967: Nicola De Vito (ITA) • 1971: Pasquale Busca (ITA) • 1975: Armando Zambaldo (ITA) • 1979: Gérard Lelievre (FRA) • 1983: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1987: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1991: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1993: Not Held • 1997: Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) • 2001: Hatem Ghoula (TUN) • 2005: Francisco Javier Fernández (ESP) • 2009: Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)
50 km 1955: Abdon Pamich (ITA) • 1959: Not Held • 1963: Abdon Pamich (ITA) • 1967: Vittorio Visini (ITA) • 1971: Abdon Pamich (ITA)
Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 20 km Walk 1981: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) • 1983: Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN) • 1985: Viktor Mostovik (URS) • 1987: Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) • 1989: Walter Arena (ITA) • 1991 – 1993: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) • 1995: Daniel García (MEX) • 1997: Ilya Markov (RUS) • 1999: Alejandro López (MEX) • 2001: Lorenzo Civallero (ITA) • 2003: Stepan Yudin (RUS) • 2005: Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) • 2007: Chu Yafei (CHN) • 2009: Sergey Bakulin (RUS) • 2011: Andrey Krivov (RUS)
Categories:- 1957 births
- Living people
- People from the Province of Cuneo
- Italian racewalkers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Italy
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Italian athletics biography stubs
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