Showing posts with label Athletes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athletes. Show all posts
Paola Pezzo


Paola Pezzo is a double Olympic Gold Medalist (Atlanta 1996 e Sydney 2000) cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.





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Giovanna Trillini

Giovanni Trillini is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and she won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.





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Roberto Baggio


Roberto Baggio is a retired Italian professional footballer, who predominantly played as a second forward. A technically gifted, creative player and a set piece specialist renowned for his curling free kicks, Baggio is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. In 1999 he came fourth in the FIFA Player of the Century internet poll. In 1993, he was named FIFA World Player of the Year and won the Ballon d'Or. 
Baggio is the only Italian to score in three World Cups, and with nine goals holds the record for most goals scored in World Cup tournaments for Italy, along with Paolo Rossi and Christian Vieri.

Baggio is known as Il Divin Codino (The Divine Ponytail), for the hairstyle he wore for most of his career, for his talent, and for his Buddhist beliefs.






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Giacomo Agostini


Giacomo Agostini is an Italian multi-time World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed Ago, with an absolute record of 122 Grand Prix wins and 15 World Championships titles, he is claimed to be the greatest motorcycle racer of all time. Of these, 68 wins and 8 titles came in the 500cc class, the rest in the 350cc class.






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Gianni Bugno

Gianni Bugno was a versatile rider, able to do well in different types of races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de France, and the Milan – San Remo classic in 1990. In 1991 he won the Clásica de San Sebastián, and in 1994 he won the Tour of Flanders.

Bugno's greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands and Miguel Indurain of Spain, and in 1992 finished ahead of Laurent Jalabert of France and Dmitri Konyshev of Russia.




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Sara Simeoni

Sara Simeoni is a former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.





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Alberto Tomba

Alberto Tomba was the dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. Tomba won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championships, and nine World Cup season titles: four in slalom, four in giant slalom, and one overall title. He was popularly called Tomba la Bomba ("Tomba the Bomb").





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Pietro Mennea


Italian sprinter who was the 1980 Moscow Olympic 200 meter champion and also held the 200 m world record for almost 17 years (the longest time ever in the race's history) with his time of 19.72 seconds, set in September 1979 - still the European record as of date.





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