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Luigi Beccali

1907 - 1990

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Luigi Beccali (19 November 1907 – 29 August 1990) was the first Italian to win an Olympic gold medal in running, in the 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and the first Italian to win a European Championship title in athletics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Beccali has received more than 29,694 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Beccali is the 300th most popular athlete (down from 262nd in 2019), the 3,148th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,009th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Luigi Beccali ranks 300 out of 6,025. Before him are Albert Tyler, Micheline Ostermeyer, Henri Deloge, Camille Mandrillon, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Jonni Myyrä. After him are Bobbie Rosenfeld, Juan Carlos Zabala, Sándor Rozsnyói, Henry Russell, Nancy Mackay, and Eero Berg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Luigi Beccali ranks 203. Before him are George Raynor, František Junek, James A. Michener, Georges Speicher, John G. Trump, and Edmond Delfour. After him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Paula Wessely, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Amir Sjarifuddin, and Vladimir Veksler. Among people deceased in 1990, Luigi Beccali ranks 159. Before him are A. J. P. Taylor, Edwin O. Reischauer, Edmond Delfour, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Alberto Lleras Camargo, and Joel McCrea. After him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Boris Paichadze, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Luis Trenker, Alexander Men, and Ahti Karjalainen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Beccali ranks 3,148 out of 5,161. Before him are Marco Girolamo Vida (1485), Renzo Rossellini (1908), Giuseppe Rotunno (1923), Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri (1944), Giovanni Pesaro (1589), and Lilí Álvarez (1905). After him are Francesco Sabatini (1721), Aldo Donati (1910), Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544), Antonio Marcello Barberini (1569), Stefania Casini (1948), and Franco Fabrizi (1916).

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Among ATHLETES In Italy

Among athletes born in Italy, Luigi Beccali ranks 8. Before him are Pietro Mennea (1952), Dorando Pietri (1885), Giorgio Pessina (1902), Gioacchino Guaragna (1908), Ugo Frigerio (1901), and Giulio Gaudini (1904). After him are Adolfo Consolini (1917), Eugenio Monti (1928), Ernesto Ambrosini (1894), Livio Berruti (1939), Roberto Battaglia (1909), and Sara Simeoni (1953).

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