Paolo Salvi
Italian artistic gymnast
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Paolo Salvi (22 November 1891 – 12 January 1945) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912 as well as in 1920.[2] Additionally, he was part of the bronze medal winning Italian gymnastics team at both the 1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 1913 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the 1911 worlds, he also won, as an individual, a silver medal on the pommel horse apparatus and a bronze medal on the parallel bars apparatus.
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| Born | 22 November 1891 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 January 1945 (aged 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He was killed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp during World War II.[3]
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