Mario Armano

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Mario Armano (born July 25, 1946 in Alessandria ) is a former Italian bobsleigh driver who was Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1968 .

Armano was active in the third Italian volleyball league and tried his hand at athletics as a shot putter and discus thrower. During his military service he took part in a test for pushers in bobsleigh and was appointed to the national team for the first time in 1967.

He won his first international title at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, when the four-man bobsleigh driven by Eugenio Monti with Luciano De Paolis , Roberto Zandonella and Mario Armano won the gold medal with nine hundredths of a second on the Austrian bobsleigh. In 1969 Zandonella and Armano switched to bobsleigh pilot Gianfranco Gasperi . At the 1969 World Bobsleigh Championship Gasperi and Armano won the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh . In the four-man bobsleigh, Gasperi, Sergio Pompanin , Zandonella and Armano took second place behind the German bobsleigh. In 1970 Gasperi and Armano won the two-man bobsleigh at the European Bobsleigh Championships. At the 1970 Bobsleigh World Championship in St. Moritz, Nevio De Zordo , Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano and Luciano De Paolis competed in the four-man bobsleigh and won ahead of the German defending champions. The following year Gaspari and Armano won the 1971 World Bobsleigh Championship in the two-man bobsleigh. At the 1972 Olympic Games , Gasperi and Armano finished fourth in the two-man bobsleigh; Gasperi, Zandonella, Armano and De Paolis took eighth place in the four-man bobsleigh. Armano remained active until 1976, but missed his third Olympic participation due to an injury.

Professionally, Armano worked for a bank, he also worked on various levels in the bobsleigh association and in the sports committees of the Novara province. In 2009 Mario Armano and Luciano De Paolis were awarded an Italian Fair Play medal.

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SURNAME Armano, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian bobsledder
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Alessandria