Giovanni Cornacchia

Giovanni Cornacchia (born June 18, 1939 in Pescara , † July 23, 2008 ibid) was an Italian athlete who won silver in the 110-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1962 .

Career

Cornacchia won his first Italian championship title in 1960. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, he was eliminated in 14.5 seconds in the quarter-finals. In 1962, Cornacchia ran his fastest time of 13.9 seconds, with which he reached sixth place in the world's annual best list. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962, he won silver in 14.0 seconds behind Anatoly Michailow from the Soviet Union.

In 1964 Cornacchia won his second Italian championship title. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he set his best time in the semifinals with electronic timekeeping when he finished second behind the American Blaine Lindgren in 14.06 seconds . In the final, Cornacchia finished seventh with 14.12 seconds. In addition to Cornacchia, Eddy Ottoz in fourth place and Giorgio Mazza in eighth place ran two other Italians in the Olympic hurdles final of 1964.

At the Universiade in Budapest in 1965, Eddy Ottoz won ahead of Giovanni Cornacchia and the American Willie Davenport . In 1966 the first European Indoor Games took place in Dortmund , the forerunners of the later European Indoor Championships. Cornacchia finished fifth in the 60 meter hurdles in his personal best indoor time of 7.9 seconds, while his compatriot Eddy Ottoz won in 7.7 seconds. Eddy Ottoz also won the European Championships in 1966 , which also took place in Budapest; Cornacchia finished fifth in 14.2 seconds ahead of third Italian Sergio Liani , who was sixth at the same time. At the Mediterranean Games in Tunis in 1967, Cornacchia won ahead of Liani. In 1968 Cornacchia took part in the Olympic Games for the third time , but was eliminated in the preliminary stages.

With a height of 1.86 meters, his competition weight was 78 kilograms.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 (obituary page 101).

Web links

• Giovanni Cornacchia in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )