Gastone Pierini Explained

Birth Date:27 September 1899
Birth Place:Ancona, Italy
Death Place:Brazil
Sport:Weightlifting
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Gastone Pierini (27 September 1899  - 17 September 1967) was an Italian lightweight weightlifter.[1] He competed in the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1932. He was born in Italy, but lived most of his life in Egypt, and spent five years in a war camp near El-Fayid during World War II. After that he immigrated to Brazil, where he died in 1967.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gastone Pierini . Olympedia . 29 November 2021.