Gastone Pierini (27 September 1899 – 17 September 1967) was an Italian lightweight weightlifter. He competed in the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

and

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

and won a bronze medal in 1932. He was born in Italy, but lived most of his life in Egypt, and spent five years in a war camp near El-Fayid during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. After that he immigrated to Brazil, where he died in 1967.

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* 1899 births 1967 deaths Italian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Italy Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1932 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-weightlifting-bio-stub