Romeo Neri

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Romeo Neri
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Date of birth 26 March 1903(1903-03-26)
Place of birth Rimini, Italy
Date of death September 23, 1961 (aged 58)
Previous Teams
Olympic medal record
Men's Gymnastics


Gold 1932 Los Angeles Parallel Bars
Gold 1932 Los Angeles All-around, Individual Men
Gold 1932 Los Angeles Team Combined Exercises
Silver 1928 Amsterdam Horizontal Bar

Romeo Neri (March 26, 1903 – September 23, 1961) was an Italian gymnast from Rimini, and three times Olympic Champion. He won three gold medals at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and obtained a silver medal in the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1] He obtained a silver medal and a bronze medal in the 1934 World Championships in Budapest.

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  1. ^ Profile: "Romeo Neri" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 18, 2008)
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Olympic champions in men's individual all-around
1900: Gustave Sandras | 1904: Julius Lenhart | 1908: Alberto Braglia | 1912: Alberto Braglia | 1920: Giorgio Zampori | 1924: Leon Štukelj | 1928: Georges Miez | 1932: Romeo Neri | 1936: Alfred Schwarzmann | 1948: Veikko Huhtanen | 1952: Viktor Chukarin | 1956: Viktor Chukarin | 1960: Boris Shakhlin | 1964. Yukio Endo | 1968. Sawao Kato | 1972: Sawao Kato | 1976: Nikolai Andrianov | 1980: Alexander Dityatin | 1984: Koji Gushiken | 1988: Vladimir Artemov | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Li Xiaoshuang | 2000: Alexei Nemov | 2004: Paul Hamm
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Olympic champions in men's parallel bars
1896: Alfred Flatow | 1904: George Eyser | 1924: August Güttinger | 1928: Ladislav Vácha | 1932: Romeo Neri | 1936: Konrad Frey | 1948: Michael Reusch | 1952: Hans Eugster | 1956: Viktor Chukarin | 1960: Boris Shakhlin | 1964: Yukio Endo | 1968: Akinori Nakayama | 1972: Sawao Kato | 1976: Sawao Kato | 1980: Alexander Tkachyov | 1984: Bart Conner | 1988: Vladimir Artemov | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Rustam Sharipov | 2000: Li Xiaopeng | 2004: Valeri Goncharov


Persondata
NAME Neri, Romeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian gymnast, 3 Olympic golds
DATE OF BIRTH 1903-3-26
PLACE OF BIRTH Rimini
DATE OF DEATH 1961-9-23
PLACE OF DEATH
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