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Encyclopedia > Elisabetta Perrone
Olympic Medal Record
Women's Athletics
Silver 1996 20 km walk

Elisabetta Perrone (born July 9, 1968 in Camburzano) is a Italian race walker. Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Athletics Medal Winners at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics See also Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games 1996 Summer Olympics Categories: | | ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... It has been suggested that Lifting be merged into this article or section. ...


Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Result Event
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany 4th 10 km
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 2nd 10 km
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 2nd 10 km
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 3rd 20 km

The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22. ... Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 as of September 2005 in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden between August 5 and August 13. ... Gothenburg (Swedish: (help· info)) ) is a city and municipality on the west-coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ... Athletics Medal Winners at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics See also Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games 1996 Summer Olympics Categories: | | ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between August 3 and August 12 and was the first time the event had visited North America. ... More than one place has the name Edmonton. ...

External reference

  • IAAF profile for Elisabetta Perrone

  Results from FactBites:
 
Telegraph | Sport | Referee denies Saville gold medal at last gasp (439 words)
Perrone inherited the lead but was thrown out for lifting.
However, after stopping and waving her arms angrily in the air, Perrone set off again, causing total confusion as she overtook Saville to go back into the lead.
At that stage it seemed as if the 32-year-old Italian, a silver medallist in the 1996 Olympics 10km race, was determined to cross the line first despite her disqualification.
Guardian | Saville has to walk away from her dream (280 words)
She retreated to a hill overlooking the stadium and did not enter it for half an hour.
The women walking with her in the final stages, China's Hongyu Liu and Italy's Elisabetta Perrone, had already been thrown out.
Perrone, who had inherited the lead on Liu's disqualification, stopped and waved her arms angrily in the air, then set off again, causing confusion as she overtook Saville to go back into the lead before walking off the road.
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