Date of birth: 01/06/1992
Place of birth: Civitanova Marche
Height x weight: 1,91 X 76
First Club: Atletica Osimo
Club: Fiamme Oro
First Coach: Marco Tamberi
Coach: Marco Tamberi
Other sports: Basketball
Hobby: Music
Relationship Status: Single
Olympic Club: Yes
Olympic Games Participation:
1 (Londra 2012)
Biography
The Tokyo Games are his revenge. After the ankle injury that kept him out of Rio 2016, he returns to an Olympics event to repeat the experience of London 2012. A basketball fan, in 2009 he began to take up athletics seriously, following in the footsteps of his father Marco (a finalist in Moscow 1980), and the results were there: he is the only Italian national to have won the outdoor (in 2016) and indoor (in 2019) continental titles in High jump. Italian record holder in the speciality, "Gimbo" has abandoned the "half-beard" to be like Legolas from the fantasy bestseller The Lord of the Rings, but for him, who played drums in the "The Dark Melody" band with a classic seventies rock repertoire, the music does not change in Tokyo he will do everything to be the representative of the Italian national team.
Palmares
PrintOlympic Games
21° Londra (GBR) 2012
World Championships
8° Pechino (CHN) 2015
13° Londra (GBR) 2017
8° Doha (QAT) 2019
European Championships
5° Helsinki (FIN) 2012
7° Zurigo (SUI) 2014
1° Amsterdam (NED) 2016
4° Berlino (GER) 2018