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Olympic-Gold Winning Gymnast Franco Menichelli Dies Aged 84

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Italian Olympic-gold-winning gymnast Franco Menichelli has died at the age of 84, the Italian gymnastics federation said on Wednesday. The Roman athlete won gold in the floor event at the 1964 Games in Tokyo. (ANSA)

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He made Japan cry: it was October 1964, Tokyo Olympics. Franco Menichelli, a 23-year-old Roman boy at the time, had discovered the acrobatics in his summers as a child...

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Gold in the free body at the 1964 Tokyo Games, he also won silver at the rings and bronze at the parallel equals. In Rome, in 1960, he obtained the historic bronze team.

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il Giornale broke the news in Italy on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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