Armando Filiput

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Armando Filiput (born December 19, 1923 in Ronchi dei Legionari , † March 30, 1982 ibid) was an Italian athlete . With a height of 1.84 m, his competition weight was 80 kg.

Career

Armando Filiput already had a strong season in 1942 with a best performance of 54.9 s in the 400 meter hurdles and his first championship title on this route, but was then drafted.

In 1946 he was again Italian champion. From 1949 to 1954, six more championship titles followed.

The internationally most successful season for Armando Filiput was the year 1950. At the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 he won gold over 400 meter hurdles ahead of Yuri Litujew from the Soviet Union with a national record of 51.9 s . The Italian 4 x 400 meter relay with Baldassare Porto , Filiput, Luigi Paterlini and Antonio Siddi also set a national record with 3: 11.0 minutes and won silver behind the British relay. On October 8, 1950, he set a new world record in Milan with 51.9 s over 440 yard hurdles.

In the following years Filiput no longer reached the form of 1950. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 Filiput finished sixth in the hurdles final in 54.4 s after running 53.0 s in the semifinals. With the season he did not reach the finals. In 1954 at the European Championships in Bern in 1954 , he clearly missed the final with 52.3 seconds as fifth in his semifinals.

literature

  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. 110m / 120y hurdles / 400m / 440y hurdles . Grevenbroich 1997
  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

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