Antonino Pizzolato (born 20 August 1996) is an Italian
weightlifter
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Olympian, and three-time European Champion competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and the 81 kg and 89 kg categories starting in 2018 after the
International Weightlifting Federation
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reorganized the weight classes. He competed at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
, in
Men's 81 kg, winning a bronze medal.
Career
In 2019 he competed at the
2019 European Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg category winning the gold medal in the clean & jerk and total.
Later in 2019 Pizzolato competed at the
2019 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2019 World Weightlifting Championships was held in Pattaya, Thailand from 18 to 27 September 2019.
On September 12, Egypt was banned from competing at these Championships due to multiple doping offenses. The host nation, Thailand, was also ban ...
, he finished in sixth place with a 358 kg total in the 81 kg category.
He won the gold medal in the
men's 89 kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the
2022 Mediterranean Games
The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...
held in Oran, Algeria.
Major results
References
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Italian male weightlifters
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
1996 births
Living people
Weightlifters of Fiamme Oro
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters of Italy
People from Castelvetrano
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Sportspeople from the Province of Trapani
21st-century Italian people