Athletic Legend Dies One Day Before the Start of the EM: Livio Berruti Is Dead
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Livio Berruti wrote sports history in 1960. Now the Italian sprint legend - one day before the start of the World Championships in Athletics in Birmingham - died 87 years old.
Italian sprint legend Livio Berruti died at the age of 87. The Olympic champion of 1960 died one day before the start of the World Championships in Athletics in Birmingham.
Livio Berruti died at the age of 87. Born in Turin, he was the first European to triumph at summer games in the sprint over 200 meters in 1960.
(Adnkronos) - Livio Berruti, the Olympic champion at the 1960 Rome Games, died in the 200 metres. The legend of Italian athletics and the protagonist of one of the most famous pages of blue sport, was 87 years old. He was the first European to win first place on the podium in the specialty at 21 years old, interrupting the long supremacy of the North American speedsters in the specialty. He left his wife Silvia Balma, a professional lawyer, who …
He died Livio Berruti, legend of Italian athletics. After a period of illness, he died at 87 years in a Turin clinic the Olympic champion of the 200 meters in Rome 1960. It is learned from sources close to the family. Berruti leaves his wife Silvia. The funerals are scheduled in private form. After the competitive career [...] L'articolo Farewell to Livio Berruti, the Olympic champion of the 200 meters in Rome 1960. He was 87 years old comes fro…
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