Giuseppe Tonani

Personal information

Born

2 October 1890
Milan, Italy

Died

1 October 1971 (aged 80)
Milan, Italy

Weight

109 kg (240 lb)

Sport

Weightlifting

Club

APEF Milan

Medal record

Olympic Games
Representing Italy
	1924 Paris	+82.5 kg

Giuseppe Tonani (2 October 1890 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian heavyweight weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics, placing seventh in 1928. Earlier in 1920 he was part of the Italian Olympics tug of war team.^[1]

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- Giuseppe Tonani at Sports Reference

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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