Giordano Giulio Abbondati (29 May 1948 – 21 April 2005) was an Italian

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and seven-time national champion in 1961–66 and 1968. He competed in several

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and

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in the 1960s, in addition to the

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and

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, in both of which he placed 14th. Giordano retired from figure skating in 1968 to pursue a career in medicine but continued to be involved in figure skating as an international competition judge for many years. He married fellow judge Hely Rainesalo-Abbondati of

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in 1974 and moved to

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. He later moved to the UK with his wife and two children, where he practised as a consultant

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in London, becoming Head of Anaesthetics and later Clinical Director of the pioneering Ambulatory Care and Diagnostics Centre (ACAD) which opened in 1999. He died from natural causes in 2005.

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* Italian male single skaters 1948 births 2005 deaths Olympic figure skaters of Italy Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics Figure skaters from Milan {{Italy-figure-skating-bio-stub