Savino Guglielmetti | |
Birth Date: | 1911 11, df=y |
Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
Discipline: | MAG |
Club: | Società Ginnastica Pro Patria 1883 |
Savino Guglielmetti (26 November 1911 – 23 January 2006) was an Italian gymnast. He competed at the 1932, 1936 and 1948 Olympics and won two gold medals in 1932.
A taxi ran over Guglielmetti when he was a child, but he escaped unharmed. He later fell from a four-story building, but managed to cling on power cables and survived. Originally a pole vaulter, he joined a gymnastics club in 1927, where he was coached by Mario Corrias. Three years later he became a member of the national team. Although he won two Olympic gold medals in 1932, he faced a strong competition in Italy, and won his first national all-around title only in 1934. He defended it in 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1939.
In 1998 Guglielmetti was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame,[1] and in 2000 received the Olympic Order in Silver.[2]