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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 27,399 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Luigi Beccali is the 262nd most popular athlete (down from 159th in 2019), the 3,017th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,593rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Luigi Beccali ranks 262 out of 3,059Before him are Karl Staaf, Romuald Klim, Gerhard Stöck, Veikko Hakulinen, Anatoly Alyabyev, and Merlene Ottey. After him are Olga Gyarmati, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Bernd Kannenberg, Christian d'Oriola, Boughera El Ouafi, and Earle Meadows.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Luigi Beccali ranks 201Before him are Camargo Guarnieri, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Ilia Vekua, Jack Albertson, and Giuseppe Occhialini. After him are Zezé Moreira, Gordon Douglas, Fritz Szepan, Alberto Chividini, František Junek, and Kinue Hitomi. Among people deceased in 1990, Luigi Beccali ranks 156Before him are Joel McCrea, Vladimir Stoychev, Erkki Aaltonen, Luis Trenker, Xu Xiangqian, and Edwin O. Reischauer. After him are Otto E. Neugebauer, Robert Cummings, Merab Mamardashvili, Edmond Delfour, Đorđe Vujadinović, and Jill Esmond.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Beccali ranks 3,017 out of 4,668Before him are Alberto Gilardino (1982), Alessandro Tassoni (1565), Francesco Sabatini (1721), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), Esau de' Buondelmonti (1355), and Domenico II Contarini (1585). After him are Girolamo de Rada (1814), Nossis (null), Caterina Caselli (1946), Amedeo Biavati (1915), Ardito Desio (1897), and Honorius of Canterbury (550).

Among ATHLETES In Italy

Among athletes born in Italy, Luigi Beccali ranks 5Before him are Dorando Pietri (1885), Eugenio Monti (1928), Pietro Mennea (1952), and Adolfo Consolini (1917). After him are Livio Berruti (1939), Ugo Frigerio (1901), Sara Simeoni (1953), Giulio Gaudini (1904), Carlo Airoldi (1869), Carlo Agostoni (1909), and Giuseppe Gentile (1943).