Paolo Grecucci

{{short description|Italian former racewalking athlete (born 1952)}}

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{{MedalCompetition|IAAF World Race Walking Cup}}

{{MedalGold|1981 Valencia|Combined Team}}

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{{MedalBronze|1977 Milton Keynes|50 km walk}}

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Paolo Grecucci (born 2 February 1952) is an Italian former racewalking athlete.[http://www.all-athletics.com/node/398252 Paolo Grecucci]. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-04-17. He was a five-time participant at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup and was a bronze medallist in the 50 kilometres race walk at the event in 1977.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/walk.htm IAAF World Race Walking Cup]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-04-17.[https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitioninfo/4351adb2-3476-4e4b-8b1c-f8ca4668ac4a.pdf IAAF World Race Walking Cup Taicang 2014 Facts & Figures]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-04-16.

Biography

Grecucci twice competed for Italy at the European Athletics Championships (1978 and 1982) with his best placing being 15th.[http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK]. European Athletics Association, pp. 377-384. Retrieved on 2016-04-17. Following the event being dropped form the Olympic programme the 1976 World Championships in Athletics was held for 50 km walk and Grecucci was Italy's best performer in seventh place.[http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/Moscow-2013-Statistics/sources/projet/IAAF-Moscow.pdf IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013] (pg. 179). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.

At national level, he was twice the 50 km walk winner at the Italian Athletics Championships.

International competitions

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1975

|World Race Walking Cup

|Le Grand-Quevilly, France

|13th

|50 km walk

|4:23:55

1976

|World Championships

|Malmö, Sweden

|7th

|50 km walk

|4:04:59

1977

|World Race Walking Cup

|Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|50 km walk

|4:06:27

1978

|European Championships

|Prague, Czechoslovakia

|15th

|50 km walk

|4:05:46.8

1979

|World Race Walking Cup

|Eschborn, West Germany

|9th

|50 km walk

|3:50:51

1981

|World Race Walking Cup

|Valencia, Spain

|19th

|50 km walk

|4:18:56

1982

|European Championships

|Athens, Greece

| —

|50 km walk

|{{AthAbbr|DNF}}

1983

|World Race Walking Cup

|Bergen, Norway

|7th

|50 km walk

|3:57:14

National titles

  • Italian Athletics Championships
  • 50 km walk: 1976, 1978[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/ita.htm Italian Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-04-17.

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