Sandro Rosati

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Sandro Rosati (born March 7, 1958 in Rome ) is a former Italian judoka . He was third in the world championship in 1983 and fifth in the 1984 Olympics.

Athletic career

Sandro Rosati was third in the 1974 and 1975 European Cadet Championships in the weight class up to 58 kilograms. From 1977 the 1.72 m tall Rosati fought in the half-light weight, the weight class up to 65 kilograms. In 1977 he finished second at the Junior European Championships and won his first Italian championship. In 1978, 1979 and 1982 he was also Italian champion. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1978 he was defeated in the battle for a bronze medal by the Yugoslav Dragan Kosic and took fifth place. Four years later at the European Championships in Rostock in 1982 he was defeated in the semi-finals by Torsten Reissmann from the GDR and lost in the battle for a bronze medal against Janusz Pawłowski from Poland .

In 1983 Rosati won the silver medal behind Frenchman Thierry Rey at the Mediterranean Games in Casablanca . A month later, the 1983 World Championships took place in Moscow . Rosati defeated the Mexican Gerardo Padilla in the quarter-finals , in the semifinals he lost to the Japanese Yoshiyuki Matsuoka . In the battle for a bronze medal, Rosati defeated the Hungarian István Furjesz . A year later at the Olympics in Los Angeles , Rosati won his first four fights. He won his opening fight against Andrés Sancho from Costa Rica and the quarter-finals against Luc Chanson from Switzerland with Ippon, the fights against the Spaniard Francisco Rodríguez and the Turks Alparslan Ayan lasted the full fighting time. In the semifinals Rosati was defeated by the South Korean Hwang Jung-oh with a small score, he lost the fight for a bronze medal against the Austrian Josef Reiter by a referee decision (Yusei-gachi). In 1985 Rosati finished seventh again at the World Championships in Seoul .

At the end of 1984, Rosati won the military world championships, having finished second in 1980 and third in 1977 and 1978.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1983 Mediterranean Games at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 952f
personal data
SURNAME Rosati, Sandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome