ROME -- Pietro Mennea, an Olympic sprint champion from Italy who held the world record in the 200 meters for 17 years, died Thursday. He was 60. The Italian Olympic Committee said Mennea died in a ...

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Pietro Mennea, the Italian sprinter, who has died aged 60, pipped Britain’s Allan Wells to the line to win gold in the 200 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and also held the 200m world record for ...

Pietro Mennea, an Olympic sprint champion from Italy who held the world record in the 200 metres for 17 years, has died aged 60. The Italian Olympic Committee said Mennea died in a Rome hospital as a ...

Hundreds of fans have paid their respects to Pietro Mennea during a public viewing in Rome, a day after the Olympic sprint champion died. Mennea’s coffin arrived at the headquarters of the Italian ...

The past and future of Italian athletics find a place in the day dedicated by the Club of Rome of Panathlon International to the 'Pietro Mennea Award' awarded to the Roman hurdler Lorenzo Ndele ...

There is also the coin of Pietro Mennea and the 2024 Rome European Athletics Championships among those that tell the story of Italy. It was unveiled today at the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the ...

September 12th 1979 is a date that many Pietro Mennea‘s fans would certainly remember. The Italian athletics champion made his greatest record in Mexico City, at the 200 metres Universiade final.

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Pietro Mennea, 60, an Olympic sprint champion from Italy who held the world record in the 200 meters for 17 years, died Thursday at a hospital in Rome, the Italian Olympic Committee said. The cause ...