Marco Galiazzo

Marco Galiazzo
Marco Galiazzo (5 from left) at the 2012 Olympic Games
nation	Italy
birthday	May 7, 1983
place of birth	Padua ,  Italy
size	180 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
society	ASD Arcieri Rio CS Aeronautica
Trainer	Adriano Galiazzo
National squad	since 1998
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × European Games medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 1 ×

Marco Galiazzo (born May 7, 1983 in Padua ) is an Italian archer with the recurve bow and Olympic champion in singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and Olympic champion with the team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London .

Career

Marco Galiazzo won the bronze medal with the team at the 2003 World Archery Championships in New York City . A year later he won the individual title at the European Championships in Brussels, followed in the same year with the gold medal in the individual at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his greatest success. He defeated the Japanese Hiroshi Yamamoto 111 to 109 in the final. In Athens, Marco Galiazzo also reached seventh place with the team. At the 2007 World Championships in Leipzig, Galiazzo was sixtieth in the individual, with the team he reached fifth place. In the same year he was able to achieve a second place with the team at the World Cup in Ulsan and a first place at the World Cup in Dover . He was part of the Italian squad for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where he won the silver medal with the team and competed in the individual. Galiazzo survived the placement round of the individual competition in twelfth place, but then failed in the round of 32 against British Alan Wills with 110 to 109. In October 2009 Galiazzo won the World Cup Grand Final Gold in Copenhagen- Nyhavn just ahead of British Simon Terry , this brought him to third place in the world rankings. He had been able to improve continuously in the world rankings before 2006 and was at times world number one with the recurve bow, most recently on May 13, 2006. In 2012 he again took part in the Olympic Games and won gold in the men's championship together with Michele Frangilli and Mauro Nespoli .

Galiazzo studied telecommunications at the University of Padua and works as a development engineer at Applied Materials .

Web links

• Marco Galiazzo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at archery.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Galiazzo - biography and results at sports-reference.com ( English ). Accessed April 14, 2010.
2. ↑ WORLD CUP 2009 - RANKINGS ( English , PDF; 63 kB) August 9, 2009. Accessed April 14, 2010.
3. ↑ Gold success for Italian archers ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 28, 2012 (English)