Osvaldo Palazzi was an Italian
gymnast
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.
He took part in the fifth
Gymnastics World Championships
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, which took place in 1911, where Italy won bronze in the team competition. Individually, he took gold in the pommel horse. In the next World Championships, in 1913, Palazzi won silver in the
pommel horse
The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts. Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and ...
(behind
Giorgio Zampori
Giorgio Zampori (4 June 1887 – 7 December 1965) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1912, 1920 and 1924.
Biography
He was part of the Italian team that won three consecutive gold medal in the gymnastics men's team ...
) and bronze in the
horizontal bar
The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a syste ...
. He also took bronze again in the team competition with the Italian team.
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Italian male artistic gymnasts
Date of birth unknown
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Place of birth missing