Filippo Bottino

Personal information

Born

9 December 1888
Genova, Italy

Died

18 October 1969 (aged 80)
Sestri Ponente, Genova, Italy

Weight

99 kg (218 lb)

Sport

Weightlifting

Club

Ginnastica Sampierdarenese, Genova

Medal record

Olympic Games
Representing Italy
	1920 Antwerp	+82.5 kg

Filippo Bottino (9 December 1888 – 18 October 1969) was an Italian heavyweight weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. In 1922 he became the first Italian weightlifter to break a world record, in the press, and in 1924 he finished sixth at the Paris Olympics. He was made a Knight of the Italian Republic received the Medal of Honour for Sporting Merit.^[1]

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Olympic champions in weightlifting – Heavyweight

1920–1948: +82.5 kg, 1952–1968: +90 kg, 1972–1976: 90–110 kg, 1980–1992: 100–110 kg, 1996: 99–108 kg, 2000–2008: 94–105 kg

1920: Filippo Bottino 1924: Giuseppe Tonani 1928: Josef Straßberger 1932: Jaroslav Skobla 1936: Josef Manger 1948+1952: John Davis 1956: Paul Anderson 1960: Yury Vlasov 1964+1968: Leonid Zhabotinsky 1972: Jaan Talts 1976: Yury Zaitsev 1980: Leonid Taranenko 1984: Norberto Oberburger 1988: Yury Zakharevich 1992: Ronny Weller 1996: Tymur Taymazov 2000: Hossein Tavakkoli 2004: Dmitry Berestov 2008: Andrei Aramnau 2012: Oleksiy Torokhtiy

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