Giuseppe Gibilisco
| Giuseppe Gibilisco medal table |
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 Giuseppe Gibilisco (2009) |
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| gold | 2003 Paris | 5.90 (NR) |
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| bronze | 2004 Athens | 5.85 m |
Giuseppe Gibilisco (born January 5, 1979 in Syracuse ) is an Italian pole vaulter .
Gibilisco made his first international appearance at the 1998 World Youth Championships in Annecy , where he won bronze. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he finished tenth as well as at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 .
Gibilisco celebrated its greatest success so far at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis. With a jump of 5.90 meters, he set an Italian national record and surprisingly secured the world title. He jumped two inches higher than the South African Okkert Brits .
Another medal followed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With 5.85 meters he took bronze. The American Timothy Mack won with 5.95 meters. At the 2005 IAAF World Finals in Monaco he came in fifth, and at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg he came in seventh.
In 2007 the Italian athletics federation FIDAL imposed a two-year ban on Gibilisco. He was accused of being involved in the Oil For Drugs affair involving the Italian doctor Carlo Santuccione . Santuccione is also said to have had contact with the Spanish doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes . Gibilisco announced his retirement from professional sport, but appealed the decision. The ban, confirmed by the Court of Appeal of the National Olympic Committee in Italy, was lifted in May 2008 by the International Court of Sports .
In Beijing, Gibilisco reached the final of the 2008 Olympic Games , but then failed because of the entry height. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin he was seventh. At the European Championships in Barcelona the following year he reached fourth place, where he was level with the bronze medalist Przemysław Czerwiński .
Giuseppe Gibilisco is 1.83 m tall and has a competition weight of 79 kg. He was trained by Vitaly Petrov, the former coach of the pole vault world record holder Serhiy Bubka .
Web links
- Giuseppe Gibilisco in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Giuseppe Gibilisco in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Focus : Gibilisco wants to go to Olympia after acquittal , May 10, 2008
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| SURNAME | Gibilisco, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Syracuse |