Guido Fantoni
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| bronze | 1948 London | Heavy Greco |
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| bronze | 1953 Naples | Heavy Greco |
| Mediterranean Games | ||
| gold | 1951 Alexandria | Heavy Greco |
Guido Fantoni (born February 4, 1919 in Bologna , † December 28, 1974 ) was an Italian wrestler . He was a bronze medalist at the 1948 London Olympics in the Greco-Roman style heavyweight division.
Career
Guido Fantoni came from Bologna and started wrestling there as a teenager. Since the beginning of the 1940s he was one of the best Italian wrestlers in the light heavyweight and heavyweight division in the Greco-Roman style. He made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the 1948 Olympic Games in London in the heavyweight division. He won the bronze medal there with two victories.
In 1951 he won the Mediterranean Games in Alexandria in the heavyweight division, while he remained at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 with only one victory without a medal. But Guido Fantoni won another heavyweight medal at the 1953 World Championships in Naples , again the bronze one.
Then he retired from international competition.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, S = Heavyweight, Gr = Greco-Roman style)
- 1948, bronze medal , OS in London , GR, S, with victories over Taisto Kangasniemi , Finland a . Jozsef Taranyi , Hungary a . Losses against Tor Nilsson , Sweden a . Ahmet Kireççi , Turkey ;
- 1951, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Alexandria , GR, S, before Antonios Georgoulis, Greece a . Bogdady, Egypt ;
- 1952, 8th place , OS in Helsinki , GR, S, with a victory over Josef Růžička , Czechoslovakia a . Defeats to Johannes Kotkas , USSR and Bengt Fahlkvist , Sweden;
- 1953, bronze medal , World Championship in Naples , GR, S, with victories over Johannes Arts, Netherlands a . Antonios Georgoulis et al. Losses against Bertil Antonsson , Sweden a. Johannes Kotkas
literature
- Div. Issues of the professional journal Athletik from 1948 to 1953,
- Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
Web links
- Profile of Guido Fantoni at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Guido Fantoni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fantoni, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1974 |