Ermanno Pignatti

Ermanno Pignatti (born August 8, 1921 in Modena , † October 31, 1995 ) was an Italian weightlifter .

Career

Ermanno Pignatti was a police officer and started lifting weights at "Sportiva" Modena. Later he moved to Milan and became a member of the "Fiamme d'Oro" sports club. His coach there was Primo Ferrari. Ermanno was a late starter. His first successes as a weight lifter did not show up until he was 30 years old. But he was still very successful and, as the high point of his career, won an Olympic bronze medal in the middleweight division in Melbourne in 1956 , after having become the European lightweight champion in 1951. After completing his active career, he wrote a textbook on weightlifting entitled "Modern Weightlifting." In his honor the Italian Weightlifting Association organizes the "Trofeo Internationale Ermanno Pignatti" every year.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = lightweight, Wed = middleweight)

• 1951, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games in Alexandria , Le with 307.5 (85.0, 100.0, 122.5) kg, behind Ibrahim Shams , Egypt , 342.5 (95.0, 112.0, 135.0) kg, and in front of Bahjat Dalloul, Syria 300, 0 (95.0, 95.5, 112.5) kg;
• 1951, 4th place ( 1st place ), WM + EM in Milan , Le, with 317.5 kg, behind Ibrahim Shams , Egypt , 342.5 kg, Joe Pitman , USA , 337.5 kg and Hassan Ferdows, Iran , 327.5 kg;
• 1952, 9th place , OS in Helsinki , Le, with 325 kg, winner: Thomas Kono , USA, 362.5 kg, ahead of Yevgeny Lopatin , USSR , 350 kg;
• 1953, 7th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Stockholm , Wed, with 352.5 kg, behind Kono, 407.5 kg and Dave Sheppard , USA, 397.5 kg;
• 1954, 5th place ( 2nd place ), WM + EM in Vienna, Wed, with 372.5 kg, behind Peter George , USA, 405 kg, Fjodor Bogdanowski , USSR, 402.5 kg, Stanley Stanczyk , USA, 390 kg and Abdel Touni, Egypt , 372.5 kg;
• 1955, 3rd place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , Wed, with 355 kg, behind Lahhman, Lebanon , 380 kg and Ragab, Egypt, 372.5 kg;
• 1955, 11th place ( 8th place ), WM + EM in Munich , Wed, with 350 kg, winner: Peter George, 405 kg, ahead of Bogdanowski, 405 kg;
• 1956, 2nd place , tournament in Milan , Wed, with 355 kg, behind Georges Firmin, France , 365 kg and in front of Ruggi, Italy , 335 kg;
• 1956, 6th place , EM in Helsinki, Wed, with 357.5 kg, winner: Igor Rybak , USSR, 382.5 kg ahead of Krzysztof Beck , Poland , 375 kg;
• 1956, bronze medal , OS in Melbourne , Wed, with 382.5 kg, behind Bogdanowski, 420 kg and Peter George, 412.5 kg;
• 1957, 5th place , World Championships in Tehran , Wed, with 380 kg, behind Kono, 420 kg, Bogdanowski, 420 kg, Jan Bochenek , Poland, 395 kg and Beck, 390 kg;
• 1958, 4th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Stockholm, Wed, with 382.5 kg, behind Kono, 430 kg, Bogdanowski, 422.5 kg and Marcel Paterni , France, 395 kg.

Italian championships

Ermanno Pignatti won a total of 10 Italian championship titles in light and middleweight.

Web links

• Ermanno Pignatti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )