Pietro Mennea
Athletics competitor and sprinter
Died when: 60 years 266 days (728 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Pietro Paolo Mennea (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro menˈnɛːa]; 28 June 1952 – 21 March 2013), nicknamed la Freccia del Sud ("the Arrow of the South"), was an Italian sprinter and politician.
He was most successful in the 200m event, winning a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and set a world record at 19.72 seconds in September 1979.
This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still the European record.
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