Ilio Colli

{{Short description|Italian alpine skier (1931–1953)}}

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Ilio Colli, vulgo Paor{{cite magazine |url=http://www.regole.it/DocAppr/transazione.pdf |title=Ilio Colli esce di pista nella libera a Madesimo e muore. Eʼ il 1953 |trans-title=Ilio Colli goes off the track in Madesimo and dies. It is 1953 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123141418/http://www.regole.it/DocAppr/transazione.pdf |archive-date=23 November 2015 |lang=it |magazine=Il Cador |issue=3 |date=March 2010 |page=22}} (May 30, 1931 – February 21, 1953), was a skier from Italy. He represented his native country at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, where he came in eighteenth in the men's downhill event.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/ilio-colli-1.html |title=Ilio Colli Biography and Statistics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020200151/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/ilio-colli-1.html |archive-date=20 October 2012 |website=sports-reference.com |access-date=23 April 2009}}

Colli, fourth of six children of Vincenzo Colli and his wife Dimai Costanza, née Piero de Jenzio Dea, was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo. He was killed when he crashed into a tree during a ski race at {{convert|50|mph}} in Madesimo. A ski course at Cortina d'Ampezzo was named in his honor.{{cite book |author1-link=David Wallechinsky |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |first2=Jaime |last2=Loucky |year=2005 |title=The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics |location=Toronto |publisher=Sport Classic Books |isbn=1-894963-45-8}}

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