Giovanni Perricelli

Giovanni Perricelli medal table
Walker
Italy
World championships
silver	1995 Gothenburg	50 km
European championships
bronze	1994 Helsinki	50 km

Giovanni Perricelli (born August 25, 1967 in Milan ) is a former Italian walker .

Internationally, he made an appearance above all on the 50-kilometer distance . In the 1988 Olympics , he finished in eleventh place in the European Championships in 1990 to seventh place, at the World Cup of 1991 walkers fifth place and at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics to thirteenth place. In 1992 at the Olympic Games in Barcelona he did not reach the goal.

Perricelli achieved his first international medal success at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 . In a personal best of 3:43:55 h, he won the bronze medal there over 50 km behind Waleri Spizyn and Thierry Toutain .

Perricelli celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1995 World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg . There he won the silver medal over 50 km in 3:45:11 h behind Valentin Kononen and ahead of Robert Korzeniowski .

In 1996, Perricelli was thirteenth in the 50 km walk and sixteenth in the 20 km walk at the Atlanta Olympics . At the World Athletics Championships in 1997 he finished fourteenth over 50 km. In contrast, he had to give up the race prematurely at the 1999 World Athletics Championships and the 2000 Olympic Games .

Giovanni Perricelli is 1.70 m tall and had a competition weight of 57 kg. He started for the GS Fiamme Azzurre .

Top performances

• 10,000 m: 39: 33.12 min, June 4, 1994, Formia
• 20 km: 1:21:37 h, June 29, 1991, Örnsköldsvik
• 50 km: 3:43:55 h, August 13, 1994, Helsinki

Web links

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