Stefano Malinverni is useless: he received the Olympic bronze in Moscow ’80 within the 4×400 with Mennea

He passes away on the age of 65 Stefano Malinverni, one of many greats of Italian athletics between the Seventies and Eighties. He was a specialist in 400 meters. Fidal made the unhappy announcement with a word on its official web site. “With Stefano Malinverni, one of many clearest skills of our 400 meters but additionally a charismatic character endowed with an innate sympathy, one other necessary piece of our athletics passes away. Born on 14 Could 1959 in Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), he handed away within the hours final, Malinverni had inextricably linked his identify to one of many highest moments within the historical past of Italian athletics: the Olympic bronze within the 4×400 in Moscow 1980”.

The feat in Moscow ’80

Stefano Malinverni was the primary participant in that race and went on the rostrum along with Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Tozzi and Pietro Mennea after that feat in two acts. First the Italian document of three’03″5 with third place within the warmth behind East Germany and Czechoslovakia (the earlier document had been set by Malinverni himself along with Borghi, Di Guida and Tozzi in Mexico Metropolis in ’79 in 3′ 03″80) after which the sudden third place within the last with Mennea who managed to overhaul France by 3 tenths, albeit with the next time than the battery (3’04″3) behind the USSR and East Germany. In that very same Olympics, Malinverni additionally handed the heats of the person competitors (47″63) stopping within the quarterfinals. He had twice reached the rostrum on the European Indoor Championships and had additionally been Italian champion 5 instances, at all times on the monitor. Nonetheless, he has by no means held the Italian document for the 400. 46 ”09 is his private document.

Fidal’s condolences

“After athletics, regardless of the stress – we learn within the word from Fidal – he had determined to not grow to be a coach on the sector however together with his spouse Susy Montanari he had arrange a health club within the Piazzale Brescia space in Milan the place he then started to observe his exercise as a physiotherapist. Many Milanese athletes relied on him for weights and Stefano, collectively together with his inseparable pals Zuliani, Bonetti and Rho, was by no means lacking from the stands on the Golden Gala rallies in Formia he imitated the alligators within the water within the swimming pool. A pacesetter even exterior the sector he had been affected by a degenerative illness for a while and had been hospitalized however nothing prompt such quick and critical penalties daughters Francesca and Giulia”. “The heartfelt condolences of Fidal president Stefano Mei, of the Federal Council and of all Italian athletics go to the household of Stefano Malinverni”, concludes the word.