Emilio Lunghi

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| birth_place = Genoa

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| height = 1.79 m

| weight = 70 kg

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Emilio Lunghi (16 March 1887, in Genoaother sources report his year of birth: 1886 – 27 September 1925) was an Italian athlete. He won the silver medal in the men's 800 metres race at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, making him the first Italian to win an Olympic medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72027 |title=Emilio Lunghi |work=Olympedia |access-date=6 March 2021}}

Biography

His time in the race was 1:54.2, which beat the previous Olympic record by 1.8 seconds but was still 1.4 seconds behind the time of Mel Sheppard, who took gold and set a new record at 1:52.8. Lunghi had won his semifinal heat with a time of 1:57.2 to advance to the final.

Lunghi also competed in the 1500 metres. His first-round heat also included Norman Hallows; both of the two runners broke the Olympic record in that heat, but Hallows came out on top by running the race in 4:03.4 as opposed to Lunghi's 4:03.8.

After the 1908 Olympics, Lunghi spent a year New York City, and competed as a member of the Irish American Athletic Club while in the U.S., establishing three world's records in the 700 yard, 880 yard and two-thirds of a mile distances.[http://www.wingedfist.com/lunghi.html 1910 Hassan Cigarettes trading card.]

National titles

Emilio Lunghi won the individual national championship nine times in six different events.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_UOMINI.pdf |title="CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012 |publisher=sportolimpico.it |access-date=10 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224064654/http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_UOMINI.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2012 }}

1 win on 400 metres (1908)
1 win on 800 metres (1914)
3 wins on 1000 metres (1908, 1911, 1912)
2 wins on 1500 metres (1906, 1913)
1 win on 1200 metres steeplechase (1912)
1 win on 400 metres hurdles (1913)

References

Notes

{{cite book | last = Cook | first = Theodore Andrea | year = 1908 | title = The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report | publisher = British Olympic Association | location = London}}
{{cite web | last = De Wael | first = Herman | year = 2001 | url = http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | title = Athletics 1908 | work = Herman's Full Olympians | access-date = 29 July 2006 | archive-date = 27 September 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060927093153/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | url-status = dead }}
{{cite book | last = Greenberg | first = Stan | year = 1987 | title = Olympic Games: The Records | publisher = Guinness Books | location = London | isbn = 0-85112-896-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/olympicgamesreco00gree }}
{{cite web|last=Wudarski |first=Pawel |year=1999 |url=http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ |title=Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich |access-date=29 July 2006 |language=pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216130930/http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ |archive-date=16 February 2009 }}

External links

{{World Athletics|14990858}}
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[http://www.asaibrunobonomelli.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72%3Abiografia-di-emilio-lunghi&catid=39%3Aultimi-lavori-di-marco-martini&lang=en Emilio Lunghi] at Asaibrunobonomelli.it {{inlang|it}}
[http://www.wingedfist.org/Emilio_Lunghi_IAAC.html Emilio Lunghi] at Wingedfist.org

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