Gastone Pierini

Gastone Pierini
Date of birth:	September 27, 1899
Place of birth:	Ancona, Italy
Date of death:	1967
Place of death:	Brazil
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Gastone Pierini (born September 27, 1899 in Ancona , Italy , † 1967 in Brazil ) was an Italian weightlifter who competed four times in the Olympic Games and won a bronze medal in the lightweight at the 1932 Olympic Games .

Career

Gastone Pierini lived with his family in Egypt . He came to weightlifting there and first started in 1924 for Italy at the Olympic Games. In 1924 this took place in Paris and a pentathlon (one-armed tearing and pushing as well as two-armed tearing, pushing and pushing) was fought. Gastone Pierini came in the lightweight, the weight class up to 67.5 kg body weight, on 392.5 kg (55-72.5-80-80-105), which he took 12th place.

In 1928 the Olympic Games took place in Amsterdam. The Olympic triathlon was held there for the first time in weightlifting, which consisted of pushing, tearing and pushing with both arms and which remained in this form until the 1972 Olympic Games. Gastone Pierini scored 282.5 kg in this light-weight three-way battle and came 8th.

In 1932, Gastone Pierini, who never took part in the Italian championships, achieved an excellent 315 kg at the Egyptian championships in the lightweight. With this achievement he reached the 2nd place behind Ahmed Anwar, who achieved the same achievement in the three-way fight, but was awarded the first price due to his achievement in the push of 135.5 kg. It was tragic for the Egyptian weightlifters, who were the absolute best in the world at the time, that they could not be sent to Los Angeles for economic reasons. Gastone Pierini, on the other hand, was able to start there and won the bronze medal with his performance of 302.5 kg (92.5-90-120) behind Rene Duverger from France, 325 kg and Hans Haas , Austria, 307.5 kg.

Gastone Pierini was also at the start at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He reached there in the lightweight in the Olympic three-way fight 300 kg (95-90-115), but given the level that has risen sharply in the meantime, this was only enough for 10th place.

In 1943, as an Italian citizen in Egypt, Gastone Pierini was interned by the Allies in a camp, from which he was only released in 1948. In 1957 he emigrated to Brazil, where he died in 1967.

successes

year	space	competition	Art	Weight class	Results
1924	12.	OS in Paris	FK	Light	with 392.5 kg (55-72.5-80-80-105); Winner: Edmond Decottignies , France, 440 kg, ahead of Anton Zwerina , Austria, 427.5 kg and Bohumil Durdis , Czechoslovakia, 425 kg
1928	8th.	OS in Amsterdam	OD	Light	at 282.5 kg (82.5-90-110); Winner: Kurt Helbig , Germany, 322.5 kg (90-97.5-135) and Hans Haas, Austria, 322.5 kg (85-102.5-135)
1932	2.	Egyptian championship	OD	Light	with 315 kg, behind Ahmed Anwar, Egypt, 315 kg and in front of Ahmed Mussa, Egypt, 280 kg
1932	bronze	OS in Los Angeles	OD	Light	with 302.5 kg (92.5-90-120), behind Rene Duverger , France, 325 kg (97.5-102.5-125) and Hans Haas , 307.5 (82.5-100-125) , before Pierino Gabetti , Italy, 300 kg (85-95-120)
1936	10.	OS in Berlin	OD	Light	with 300 kg (95-90-115); Winner: Robert Fein , Austria, 342.5 kg (105-100-1347.5), together with Mohamed Ahmed Mesbah, Egypt, 342.5 kg (92.5-105-145)

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games
• FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed snatching and pushing as well as two-armed pulling, pushing and pushing; OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing

literature

• Athletics magazine

Web links

• Gastone Pierini in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gastone Pierini at TOP Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century