Romeo Neri

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Romeo Neri
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Romeo Neri, 1928 in Amsterdam
Romeo Neri, 1928 in Amsterdam

Gymnast

Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1932 Los Angeles Individual all-around
gold 1932 Los Angeles Ingots
gold 1932 Los Angeles Team all-around
silver 1928 Amsterdam Horizontal bar

Romeo Neri (born March 26, 1903 in Rimini ; † September 23, 1961 there ) was an Italian gymnast and three-time Olympic champion .

At the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928 , he won the silver medal on the horizontal bar. The Swiss Georges Miez won the competition . Four years later at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he finally won three gold medals. He won the individual competition on parallel bars, the individual all-round and also the team all-round. In 1936 in Berlin he was classified 4th in the individual all-around competition.

At the gymnastics world championships in Budapest in 1934 he was second in the all-around competition behind the Swiss Eugen Mack and won the bronze medal in jumping.

The stadium of the football club Rimini Calcio was named Stadio Romeo Neri in his honor.

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