Lucio Grotone (9 November 1928 – 20 March 2017) was a Brazilian

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. He competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. Lúcio Grottone, with Sicilian ancestry, began boxing as a teenager. He achieved the light heavyweight championship of São Paulo in 1950 and later secured the Brazilian title the same year. In 1951, he repeated these triumphs and earned a silver medal at the first

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. Though eliminated in the quarter-finals at the 1952 Olympics, he retired from boxing in 1954. Grottone then focused on his wife's family fishing business but remained active as a referee and boxing administrator. In July 2016, he proudly participated in the torch relay for the

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, carrying the torch in his wheelchair.

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* 1928 births 2017 deaths Brazilian male boxers Olympic boxers for Brazil Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Santos, São Paulo Pan American Games medalists in boxing Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Boxers at the 1951 Pan American Games Light-heavyweight boxers Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games 20th-century Brazilian people 21st-century Brazilian people {{Brazil-boxing-bio-stub