Angelo Parisi (born 3 January 1953 in

Arpino Arpino (Southern Latian dialect: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Frosinone, in the Latin Valley, region of Lazio in central Italy, about 100 km SE of Rome. Its Roman name was Arpinum. The town produced two consuls of the R ...

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

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judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

ka and olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the ''heavyweight division'' at the 1980 Summer Olympics in

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."1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Soviet Union – Judo"
(Retrieved on June 19, 2008) At his Olympic debut in 1972 he represented Great Britain. He holds the 8th dan degree.

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* 1953 births Living people People from Arpino British male judoka French male judoka Olympic judoka of France Olympic judoka of Great Britain Judoka at the 1972 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1980 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in judo Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Italian male judoka Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the Province of Frosinone {{UK-judo-bio-stub