Angiolo Profeti

Angiolo Profeti (23 May 1918 – 28 April 1981), was an Italian shot putter and discus thrower who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Biography

Profeti collected 26 caps for the Italy national athletics team.^[2] In his career, he won 15 national championships in the discus throw,^[3] and its record for speciality ex aequo with Adolfo Consolini.

Profeti won the British AAA Championships title in the shot put event at the 1938 AAA Championships.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Shortly afterwards in September, he competed at the 1938 European Athletics Championships, finishing 7th in the men's shot put competition.

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Performance	Notes
1950	European Championships	Brussels	2nd	Shot put	15.16 m	^[7]
1951	Mediterranean Games	Alexandria	2nd	Shot put	15.02 m
1952	Olympic Games	Helsinki	12th	Shot put	14.74 m

15 wins in shot put at the Italian Athletics Championships (1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954)
1 win in discus throw at the Italian Athletics Championships (1950)

^ "Angiolo Profeti". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "La squadra nazionale" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
^ "ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
^ "Italian wins six-mile title". Western Mail. 16 July 1938. Retrieved 19 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA Championships". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 18 July 1938. Retrieved 19 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN)". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 12 April 2012.

v t e 1952 Italy Olympic Athletics Team
Men's track & road athletes	Telemaco Arcangeli Artidoro Berti Asfò Bussotti Salvatore Cascino Pino Dordoni Bruno Fait Armando Filiput Luigi Grossi Giuseppe Kressevich Franco Leccese Vincenzo Lombardo Egilberto Martufi Wolfgango Montanari Baldassare Porto Gianni Rocca Lucio Sangermano Antonio Siddi Giorgio Sobrero Carlo Vittori
Men's field athletes	Adolfo Consolini Avio Lucioli Amos Matteucci Angiolo Profeti Teseo Taddia Giuseppe Tosi
Women's track & road athletes	Vittoria Cesarini Milena Greppi Giuseppina Leone Vera Martelli Maria Musso Liliana Tagliaferri
Women's field athletes	Edera Cordiale Ada Turci