William Frullani | |
Nationality: | Italian |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Combined events |
Club: | C.S. Carabinieri |
Birth Date: | 1979 9, df=y |
Birth Place: | Prato, Italy |
Weight: | 93kg (205lb) |
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Country: | Italy |
William Frullani (born 21 September 1979 in Prato) is a decathlete and bobsleigh competitor from Italy.
Frullani won two medals, one of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.[1] He set his personal best score (7984 points) in the men's decathlon at the 2002 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis. In 2009 he finished 6th at the European Indoor Championships in Turin in the heptathlon with a national record of 5972 points.[2]
He was married to his combined events fellow, the Ukrainian heptathlete Hanna Melnychenko.[3]
2001 | European U23 Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | Decathlon | 7871 pts |
World Student Games | Beijing, China | — | DNF | ||
2002 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 8th | 7984 pts | |
European Championships | Munich, Germany | 9th | Decathlon | 7863 pts | |
2004 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 16th | Decathlon | 7843 pts |
2005 | Götzis, Austria | 17th | Decathlon | 7547 pts | |
2006 | Gothenburg, Sweden | — | Decathlon | DNF | |
2009 | Turin, Italy | 6th | 5972 pts | ||
Götzis, Austria | — | Decathlon | DNF |
He has won 5 times the individual national championship.[4] [5]
Frullani switched to bobsleigh in 2012.[6] He tested positive for methylhexanamine at the 2014 Winter Olympics and was excluded from the Italian team.[7] [8] He was replaced by Samuele Romanini.[9]