Alighiero Guglielmi Explained

National Team:	Italy 1 cap (1947)^[1]
Club:	I.C. Bentegodi Verona
Retired:	1955
Birth Date:	1912 8, df=yes
Birth Place:	Alessandria, Italy
Death Place:	Calolziocorte, Italy
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	Racewalking
Pb:	50 km: 4:48:22 (1947)

Alighiero Guglielmi (15 August 1912 - 1988) was an Italian racewalker.

Biography

Guglielmi was one of the most celebrated Italian racewalkers of the 1940s. Several times winner of the grueling 100 km walk, one of the most famous competition of the racewalking at the time. He did not participate in the Olympic Games only due to World War II, because those of Tokyo 1940 were suppressed, while at the time of Helsinki 1952 he was close to retirement at the age of 40.^[2]

National titles

Guglielmi won two titles at the national championships at individual senior level.^[3]

• Italian Athletics Championships
  • 50 km walk: 1940, 1942

External links

• Wikipedia dedica una pagina al campione di marcia calolziese Alighiero Guglielmi at Leccotoday.it

Notes and References

1. Web site: Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010. asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. it. 7 April 2021. 28 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210828003321/http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf. dead.
2. Web site: Questo mito dello sport aveva profonde origini alessandrine perché in città Guglielmi divenne un fuoriclasse capace di vincere tre 100 km consecutive. lastampa.it. it. 13 April 2020. 7 April 2021.
3. Web site: TUTTI I CAMPIONI ITALIANI 1906-2014. sportolimpico.it. 7 April 2021.