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It will start at exactly 10:01 a.m.: the same figures as the time he ran in Mexico City in '79 and which until five seasons ago remained the Italian 100-meter record. But they are also the digits of the years without Pietro (10) and of the number that distinguishes him: the number 1. The legend Pietro Mennea will be remembered this morning, March 2...

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Mennea Day 2021 will be held on 12 September in Barletta and will be an important event in a fantastic year for Italian sport. The memory of Pietro Mennea relives in the streets of Puglia in the memory of the legendary 19.72 in Mexico City on the 200 meters at the 1979 Universiade. On 12 September in Barletta, the birthplace of Pietro Mennea, on th...

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September 12th 1979 is a date that many Pietro Mennea‘s fans would certainly remember. The Italian athletics champion made his greatest record in Mexico City, at the 200 metres Universiade final. Pietro hit 19 seconds and 72 cents which remained unchallenged for 17 years, when Michael Johnson finally beat Pietro. Pietro Paolo Mennea will always be...

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  WTI Magazine #82    2016 August 19Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The XXXI Olympic Games of the Modern Era in Rio de Janeiro give us an opportunity to tell the life of Pietro Mennea, an Italian man who was first of all an athlete, and then became the symbol of the Italian tenacity and versatility. He graduated four times in his...

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