Giorgio Oberweger

Giorgio Oberweger (born December 22, 1913 in Trieste , † October 14, 1998 in Rome ) was an Italian athlete . Oberweger had a competition weight of 82 kg with a height of 1.89 m.

Giorgio Oberweger took sixth place in the discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in Turin in 1934 with 45.38 meters . At the Olympic Games in 1936 he won bronze with 49.23 meters behind the Americans Ken Carpenter and Gordon Dunn , with Oberweger only 13 centimeters short of silver. He was 22 centimeters short of the 1938 European Championships in Paris, when he won silver with 49.48 meters behind the German Willy Schröder . At these European Championships he also took part in the 110-meter hurdles , but was eliminated in the preliminary run.

At the Olympic Games in 1948 he was the third Italian participant in the discus throw alongside Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi . While the other two won gold and silver, Oberweger was eliminated from the qualification. Oberweger was at these games as a discus thrower, official of the Italian team and as a judge in action. He was later a member of the Council of the World Athletics Federation, the International Association of Athletics Federations , and an honorary member after his departure.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1999. Surbiton, Surrey 1999 ISBN 1899807-047 (obituary)
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Giorgio Oberweger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )