Daniele Masala

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Daniele Masala (born February 12, 1955 in Rome ) is a former Italian modern pentathlete who became Olympic champion in individual and team competitions in 1984.

Life

Masala finished fourth in the individual ranking at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and was sixth with the Italian team. In 1979 he won the bronze medal in the individual competition at the World Championships in Budapest . 1980 were the Olympic Games in Moscow by some Western countries boycotted . Italy took part in the games, but NATO had decided that no members of NATO forces should compete in Moscow; so Masala was not allowed to compete as a sports soldier. At the 1981 World Championships in Zielona Góra , the Polish Olympic champion from 1976 Janusz Pyciak-Peciak won the singles with 5662 points and 13 points ahead of Masala, the Italian team won bronze behind the Poles and Hungarians. In 1982 the World Cup took place in Rome. Masala won the title with 249 points ahead of the 1980 Olympic champion Anatoli Starostin , the team finished third again.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Masala profited from the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries. He won the individual competition with 13 points ahead of the Swede Svante Rasmuson , bronze went to Carlo Massullo . The Italian team with Masala, Massullo and Pierpaolo Cristofori won gold in front of the teams from the USA and France. In 1985 at the World Championships in Melbourne Masala finished sixth in the individual ranking, the team reached third place. In 1986 the World Cup took place again in Italy after 1982, namely in Montecatini. Carlo Massullo won ahead of Daniele Masala, together they won the title with the team. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , Masala took tenth place in the individual ranking. Together with Massullo and Gianluca Tiberti , Masala won silver in the team standings behind the Hungarians.

In addition to his international medals, Daniele Masala won 24 Italian national championships, ten of them in singles.

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SURNAME Masala, Daniele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Olympic champion in modern pentathlon
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome