Lorenzo Calafiore

Lorenzo Calafiore

Personal information
Born	31 January 1935 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Died	20 October 2011 (aged 76) Moncalieri, Italy
Height	1.45 m (4 ft 9 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	FIAT Torino
Medal record Representing  Italy European Championships 1969 Modena -48 kg 1970 Berlin -48 kg Mediterranean Games 1971 İzmir -48 kg

Lorenzo Calafiore (31 January 1935 – 20 October 2011) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy who won two medals at the European championships of 1969–1970.^[1] He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, aged 37, and finished in sixth place.^[2]

Biography

His father Francis died of a heart attack when Calafiore was a few months old. Soon after that his mother, Josephine Agostini, married Antonio Mauro, a widower with four children. The pair later had ten more children. Calafiore took up wrestling aged 20; at 26 he won his first national title and was included to the national team. On 2 May 1965 he married Catherine Logiudice; they had two children, Francis (born 1966) and Giuseppina (born 1969). Calafiore retired from competitions in 1974, and two years later started working as a coach. He retired for good in 2000 to help raising his grandchildren. He died of a heart attack in 2011.^[1]

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