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Giovanni Gozzi

Giovanni Gozzi at the 1932 Olympics (with 2 m tall Giulio Gaudini to the right)
Personal information
Born	(1902-10-19)19 October 1902 Milan, Italy
Died	11 August 1976(1976-08-11) (aged 73) Imperia, Italy
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	Agamennone, Milano
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing  Italy Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles Featherweight 1928 Amsterdam Bantamweight

Giovanni Gozzi (19 October 1902 – 11 August 1976) was an Italian Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Gozzi competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he won a gold medal in the featherweight class. He also won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics and competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was selected for the 1936 Games, but missed it because of an accident.

At the European championships Gozzi won a gold medal in 1927 in bantamweight, a silver in 1925 in bantamweight, and a bronze in 1934 in featherweight. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach.

References

1. "Giovanni Gozzi". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
2. "1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Wrestling" Archived 12 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 27 August 2008)
3. ^ "Giovanni Gozzi Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.

External links

• Giovanni Gozzi at the International Wrestling Database
• Giovanni Gozzi at Olympics.com
• Giovanni Gozzi at Olympedia
• Giovanni Gozzi at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)

v t e Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman featherweight
1912:  Kaarlo Koskelo (FIN) 1920:  Oskari Friman (FIN) 1924:  Kalle Anttila (FIN) 1928:  Voldemar Väli (EST) 1932:  Giovanni Gozzi (ITA) 1936:  Yaşar Erkan (TUR) 1948:  Mehmet Oktav (TUR) 1952:  Yakiv Punkin (URS) 1956:  Rauno Mäkinen (FIN) 1960:  Müzahir Sille (TUR) 1964:  Imre Polyák (HUN) 1968:  Roman Rurua (URS) 1972:  Georgi Markov (BUL) 1976:  Kazimierz Lipień (POL) 1980:  Stelios Mygiakis (GRE) 1984:  Kim Weon-kee (KOR) 1988:  Kamandar Madzhidov (URS) 1992:  Mehmet Akif Pirim (TUR) 1996:  Włodzimierz Zawadzki (POL) 2000:  Varteres Samurgashev (RUS) 2004:  Jung Ji-hyun (KOR) 2008:  Islambek Albiev (RUS) 2012:  Omid Norouzi (IRI)
1912–1920: 60 kg 1924–1928: 62 kg 1932–1936: 61 kg 1948–1960: 62 kg 1964–1968: 63 kg 1972–1996: 62 kg 2000: 63 kg 2004–2012: 60 kg

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