Maurizio Damilano

Maurizio Damilano
nation	Italy
birthday	April 6, 1957
place of birth	Scarnafigi
size	183 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Go
society	FIAT Torino
status	resigned
End of career	2001
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 2 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Moscow 1980 20 km walking bronze Los Angeles 1984 20 km walking bronze Seoul 1988 20 km walking  World championships gold Rome 1987 20 km walking gold Tokyo 1991 20 km walking European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 20 km walking  Indoor world championships silver Paris 1985 5000 m walking European Indoor Championships silver Grenoble 1981 5000 m walking gold Milan 1982 5000 m walking  Universiade gold Bucharest 1981 20 km walking silver Edmonton 1983 20 km walking

Maurizio Damilano (born April 6, 1957 in Scarnafigi ) is a former Italian walker and Olympic champion .

He made his international breakthrough at the age of 23 at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where he immediately won the gold medal in the 20 km walk , ahead of Pyotr Potschintschuk from the Soviet Union and Roland Wieser from the GDR. At the following Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles he was third behind the two Mexicans Ernesto Canto and Raúl González .

In 1986 he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Stuttgart behind Jozef Pribilinec from the ČSSR. At the 1987 World Championships in Rome , he won gold with a time of 1:20:45 h. In 1988 he was again able to win the bronze medal over 20 km at the Olympic Games in Seoul behind Pribilinec and Ronald Weigel from the GDR.

In 1991 he won his second world title at the World Championships in Tokyo in 1:19:37 h. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Damilano took fourth place.

Web links

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