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| Full name | Francesco Arese | ||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||
| Born | (1944-04-13) 13 April 1944 (age 80) Centallo, Italy | ||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||
| Club | Atalanta Balangero | ||||||||
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Francesco "Franco" Arese (born 13 April 1944 in Centallo) is an Italian middle-distance runner, competing mainly at 1500 m. Arese won the 1500 meters final at the 1971 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
He was the President of Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL).
Biography
Arese has won several Italian championships on 800, 1500 and 5000 meters. He competed in both the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, but on both occasions failed to qualify for the final.
National titles
He won 12 times the national championship.
- 4 wins in 800 metres at the Italian Athletics Championships (1968, 1969, 1972, 1973)
- 4 wins in 1500 metres at the Italian Athletics Championships (1986, 1967, 1968, 1970)
- 1 win in 5000 metres at the Italian Athletics Championships (1971)
- 1 win in Cross country running at the Italian Athletics Championships (1970)
- 1 win in 1500 metres at the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships (1972)
- 1 win in 3000 metres at the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships (1970)
See also
References
- gbrathletics – European Championships (Men) Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- "Franco Arese – Presidente federale" (in Italian). fial.it. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- "gbrathletics – Italian Championships". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ "ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
- ^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
External links
- Franco Arese at World Athletics
- Franco Arese at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Franco Arese at Olympedia
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Italian male cross country runners
- Italian male middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Mediterranean Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
- Italian Athletics Championships winners
- Competitors at the 1965 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 1967 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 1970 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen