Massimo Di Giorgio Explained

Nationality:Italian
National Team:Italy 25 caps (78-83)[1]
Sport:Athletics
Event:High jump
Club:Fiamme Oro Padova
Birth Date:1958 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Verona, Italy
Height:1.92 m
Weight:78 kg
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Massimo Di Giorgio (born 22 March 1958) is a former Italian high jumper, who won three medals at senior level at the International athletics competitions.[2]

Biography

He finished fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships,[3] won the gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games and won a bronze medal at the 1983 European Indoor Championships. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1981 in Udine.[4]

1980 Moscow Olympics boycott

Italian athletes serving in its military corps could not attend the Games, however, because of the national government's official support of the boycott.[5] In 1980 Massimo Di Giorgio, like other leading Italian athletes (the swimmer Marcello Guarducci, the modern pentathlete Daniele Masala and the judoka Ezio Gamba) who in Moscow in 1980 would have had medal ambitions, could not participate in those Olympic Games because belonged to military bodies. Ezio Gamba resigned from the military body in time and was able to participate in the Games under the IOC flag, it was not so for the others.

The day when the winners of the Olympic gold medals, Pietro Mennea, Sara Simeoni and Maurizio Damilano were appointed Knights of the Italian Republic by the Italian President Sandro Pertini, Di Giorgio and Guarducci went to protest at the Quirinale because they believed that they too would had to have equal recognition.[5]

The candidacy for President of FIDAL

In 2004, at the age of 46, Massimo di Giorgio decided to propose his candidacy as President of the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL),[6] he was then defeated by the former Italian middle-distance runner Franco Arese.[7]

National records

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position EventTimeNotes
1979European Indoor Championships Vienna9thHigh jump2.18 m
European Cup Turin4thHigh jump2.24 m
Mediterranean Games Splitbgcolor=gold1stHigh jump2.26 m
1981European Cup Zagreb3rdHigh jump2.26 m
World Cup Rome6thHigh jump
1982European Indoor Championships Milan8thHigh jump2.22 m
1983European Indoor Championships Budapest3rdHigh jump2.27 m

National titles

Massimo Di Giorgio has won 7 times the individual national championship.[9] [10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. 2009. FIDAL. 173.
  2. Web site: PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI. sportolimpico.it. 29 November 2012.
  3. http://www.maik-richter.de/results/indoor/europe/1978/m78_07.html 1978 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final
  4. Web site: Italian all-time list, men's high jump (last updated 2000). digilander.libero.it. italian. 28 July 2019.
  5. Web site: Ad un salto dalla gloria, Massimo Di Giorgio e le Olimpiadi negate di Mosca. udinetoday.it. italian. 3 October 2019.
  6. Web site: Di Giorgio si candida alla presidenza Fidal. fidal.it. italian. 3 October 2019.
  7. Web site: Franco Arese è il nuovo presidente FIDAL. fidal.it. italian. 3 October 2019.
  8. Book: Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. 2009. FIDAL. 566.
  9. Web site: "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012 . sportolimpico.it . 29 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121224064654/http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_UOMINI.pdf . 24 December 2012 .
  10. Web site: ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. gbrathletics.com. 29 November 2012.