Armando Poggioli
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Italian |
Born | Modena, Italy | 14 June 1888
Died | 10 January 1967 Modena, Italy | (aged 78)
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Italy |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Discus throw Hammer throw |
Club | SG Panaro |
Armando Remigio Maria Poggioli (14 June 1888 – 10 January 1967) was an Italian discus thrower and hammer thrower who competed at three Olympic Games.
Career
[edit]Poggioli represented Italy at the 1924 Summer Olympics,[1][2] finishing 25th in the men's discus throw.
Poggioli finished third behind Malcolm Nokes in the hammer throw event at the 1926 AAA Championships[3][4][5] but won his first Italian national title at senior level in the hammer during 1926.[6]
He secured three more national hammer titles in 1927, 1928 and 1929 before going to a second Olympic Games in 1928 Summer Olympics, where he narrowly missed claiming a medal after throwing 48.37 and finishing fourth in the Olympic hammer final.
He would go on to win a fifth national title in 1930 and finished second behind Ossian Skiöld in the hammer throw event at the British 1930 AAA Championships.[7][8]
He later appeared at a third Olympic Games at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
References
[edit]- ^ "Italy Athletics at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Armando Poggioli". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ "AAA Championships". Gloucester Citizen. 3 July 1926. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Champion Athletes". Daily News (London). 5 July 1926. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Marathon race won by Scotsman". Daily Herald. 5 July 1930. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Three new native records". Daily News (London). 7 July 1930. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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