Amelia Piccinini (20 January 1917 – 3 April 1979) was an Italian
athlete
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Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...
and before
footballer
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.
She won two medals, at senior level, at the
International athletics competitions
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* Multi-sport events, commonly referred to as games, where athletics events form part of a wider sporting programme
* World cha ...
.
Career
She competed for Italy at the
1948 Summer Olympics
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held in
London, England, where she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put event.
In 1946 at the European Championships she won the bronze medal in the shot put and finished four in the long jump.
Achievements
National titles
Amelia Piccinini has won 20 times consecutively the individual
national championship.
*4 wins in the
long jump (1939, 1940, 1943, 1946)
*12 wins in the
shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...
(1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954)
*4 wins in the
pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) ( gr, πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of t ...
(1937, 1946, 1947, 1948)
See also
*
Italian Athletics Championships - Multi winners
References
External links
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1917 births
1979 deaths
Italian female pentathletes
Italian female long jumpers
Italian female shot putters
Italian women's footballers
Olympic athletes for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Athletes from Turin
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Italian Athletics Championships winners
20th-century Italian women
Women's association football players not categorized by position