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MATTEO GALVAN Athletics

Date of birth: 24/08/1988

Place of Birth: Vicenza

m. 1,82

kg. 78

Speciality 200 m, 400 m

Biography

The customs officer from Veneto will compete in Rio in the 400m race, after having established the new Italian record for completing the full track at Rieti's Over 18 event, setting the record for a speciality for which it had not budged for 10 years. Having discovered athletics thanks to school championships, he obtained the first important and prestigious result at the Under 18 World championships in Morocco, winning the 200m bronze, followed, five years later, by the European indoor gold in the 4X400m relay race and by the 200m silver medal at the Mediterranean Games. Having changed onto 400m races, he took centre stage once more in 2013, winning two competitions (400m and 4x400) at the Mersin Mediterranean Games. New and modern technologies enthusiast, he moved back to training in Rieti with his fiancée and colleague Maria Benedicta Chigbolu, after around two years spent in Florida, in Bradenton.

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Palmares

Records and medals in international, national and youth competitions

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Go to the Qualified Athletes List Status: Individual spots 07/07/2016
First Club: Atletica Vicentina
Club: Fiamme Gialle
First Coach: Umberto Pegoraro
Coach: Maria Chiara Milardi
Other sports: Football
Hobby: Information technology, new technologies
Relationship Status: Single

Palmares

World Championship

semif. Berlino 2009 (400 m)
semif. Mosca 2013 (400 m)
batt. Mosca 2013 (4x100 m)
batt. Mosca 2013 (4x400 m)

European Championship

batt. Barcellona 2010 (200 m)
semif. Zurigo 2014 (400 m)
batt. Zurigo 2014 (4x400 m)

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