Pierino Gabetti

Pierino Gabetti (22 May 1904 – 28 February 1971) was an Italian weightlifter who won Olympic gold in the men's featherweight (60 kg) event at the 1924 Summer Olympics and silver at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Biography Gabetti was born in Sestri Ponente (Genoa). Olympics.com states he set three featherweight world records from 1927–28 (two in the snatch and one in the total).

FIPE records Gabetti competing at three European Championships, placing fourth (1930), seventh (1931) and fifth (1934).

Later life According to FIPE, after World War II he served as national head coach (Commissario Tecnico Nazionale) from 1955 to 1961. FIPE also lists multiple Italian sporting honors awarded to him later in life, including a CONI Valore Atletico gold medal (1965).

Gabetti died on 28 February 1971 in Cogoleto, in the Genoa area.