Giordano Abbondati Explained

Birth Date:29 May 1948
Birth Place:Milan, Italy
Death Date:21 April 2005 (aged 56)
Death Place:Lambeth, South London, United Kingdom
Height:1.75m (05.74feet)
Weight:64kg (141lb)
Sport:Figure skating
Show-Medals:yes

Giordano Giulio Abbondati (29 May 1948 – 21 April 2005) was an Italian figure skater and seven-time national champion in 1961–66 and 1968. He competed in several European and World Championships in the 1960s, in addition to the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympic Games, in both of which he placed 14th.

Giordano retired from figure skating in 1968 to pursue a career in medicine but continued to be involved in figure skating as an international competition judge for many years. He married fellow judge Hely Rainesalo-Abbondati of Finland in 1974 and moved to Helsinki, Finland. He later moved to the UK with his wife and two children, where he practised as a consultant anesthesiologist at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, becoming Head of Anaesthetics and later Clinical Director of the pioneering Ambulatory Care and Diagnostics Centre (ACAD) which opened in 1999. He died from natural causes in 2005.

Results

Event19611962196319641965196619671968
14th 14th
17th 14th 9th 16th
14th 13th 15th 8th 11th 7th 11th
1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

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