Michele Frangilli (born 1 May 1976) is an Italian

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

Biography

He was born in

Gallarate Gallarate (; Lombard: ''Galaraa'') is a city and ''comune'' of Alto Milanese of Lombardy and of Milan metropolitan area, northern Italy, in the Province of Varese. It has a population of some 54,000 people. It is the junction of railways to Va ...

. He competed at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in men's individual archery, finishing in 6th place and winning the bronze medal in the team event. He also competed at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in men's individual archery, finishing in 10th place and winning the silver medal in the team event. In 2003 he has won the World Target Archery Championships for Recurve (Olympic) Division in New York. Frangilli competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated by Hiroshi Yamamoto of Japan, the eventual silver medalist. His final rank was 31st overall. Frangilli was also a member of the 7th-place Italian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Frangilli scored a 10 with the last arrow to dramatically win the men's archery team gold medal final against the US at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Frangilli has, up to now, won 11 Titles of World Champion for Recurve Bow in various disciplines, including Indoor, Target and Field Archery, so being the only one in the story of recurve archery to win World Champion titles in all the three specialties, for both individual and team. He also co-authored in 2005 a book on Olympic archery technique, entitled ''The Heretic Archer, ''with his father and coach, Vittorio Frangilli. He is a former world number one ranked men's recurve archer. In 2014, using his nickname "GILLO", he has registered a new brand for archery products named "GILLO Gold Medal"

Records

* Current world record holder 25 meter 60 arrows, shot on 21 November 2001(Gallarate, ITA): 300+298=598 * Former world record holder 18 meter 60 arrows, shot on 13 January 2001(Nîmes, FRA): 597 * Current world record holder 36 arrow final round, shot on 3 March 2004(Caorle, ITA): 358 * He was also knighted by the Italian government.

Individual performance timeline

References

External links

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His official website

His book webpage
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frangilli, Michele 1976 births Living people People from Gallarate Italian male archers Olympic archers for Italy Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in archery Olympic gold medalists for Italy Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Italy Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Archery Championships medalists Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in archery Archers of Centro Sportivo Aeronautica Militare Competitors at the 2001 World Games Competitors at the 2005 World Games Competitors at the 2009 World Games World Games gold medalists World Games silver medalists Sportspeople from the Province of Varese 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people