Arturo Paoletti (born 10 August 1918, date of death unknown) was an Italian boxer. He was born in

Mira, Veneto Mira is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the southern Veneto, northern Italy. It is part of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the 11th most populous comune of Veneto. It is situated on the Riviera del Brenta, midway between Padua and Venice and i ...

. He won thrice the Italian championships at Ferrara 1937, Terni 1941, and Viareggio 1942, and won the gold medal in the

Bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Ba ...

class at the

1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships The 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Breslau, Germany from 20 to 25 January. There were 97 fighters from 11 countries participating: Germany, Hungary, and Italy (16 boxers in each squad), and Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Ne ...

in Breslau. Between 1936 and 1942 he was on the Italian national team 13 times, scoring +10 –2 =1. As a professional boxer, he was an Italian champion in the bantamweight class in 1945–1946. The Arturo Paoletti Memorial is a boxing tournament played in his honour in

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

.Kontrowersje: Wojenne Mistrzostwa Europy – Breslau 1942
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* 1918 births Bantamweight boxers Year of death missing Italian male boxers Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Venice 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-boxing-bio-stub