BRIDGES ACROSS TIMES - LEADING PERSONALITIES IN SPORTS

EUROPE SEEN THROUGH ITS LEADING PERSONALITIES

PALERMO, ITALY

Pietro Mennea

The best loved Italian sprinter

Ferrari

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Women in Sports

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PIETRO MENNEA

• Born in Barletta (Apulia) in 1952.

• He was a sprinter and a politician.

• He started his long international athletic career in 1971.

• He was a lawyer and a sports agent.

• He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

• He died in 2013 after a long battle with an unspecified incurable disease.

“You can’t become a champion if you are not a man first”

PIETRO MENNEA He was known in Italy as

the Freccia del Sud, "Arrow of the South“ (A spinning button)…

• … from the trains with the same name connecting Sicily to Milan

THE ATHLETE

• Rome 1974: 200 metres European record.

• Prague 1978: 100 and 200 metres European record.

• Mexico 1979: 200 metres world record in Universiade.

• Moscow 1980: 200 metres, he became Olympic Champion.

His medal records

• These are the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, when Mennea won a hard competition vs the Russian athlete Valerij Borzov, beating his lifelong rival.

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• On September 12, 1979, in Mexico, he set his 200 metres world record.

• His record held for 17 years before Michael Johnson broke it at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials.

• A humble young man from the south, with no sports facilities available but with great self discipline and control, was able to set world records!!

THE MAN

• A stubborn, hard-working man with a great sense of responsibility, he always ran to demonstrate something to the world and never to show off.

• He took four degrees: Law, Politics, Italian literature, Sport science and Physical Education. One day his father told him: ‘you are the fastest graduated man in the world’

• After hunging up the boots once and for all, he became a lawyer, a professor and an accountant.

• He was a member of Parliament from 1999 to 2004 with the Democrats.

• As a politician, he worked to improve sports services and facilities, above all in the south of Italy, where there was total lack of them.

QUOTATIONS

You don’t have to be

perfect, but do your best

always!

Strain is never useless, you suffer but you also dream.

Don’t be afraid of failures.They help you grow up.

Life is like an eight-lane running track. We can let other people decide and run in 7 of

them, but at least one must be free for us to run and we must take it!

There is only one thing you must be ashamed of: stealing.

Initially, women were not allowed in Olympic competitions, but things changed in 1900, the year of the Olympics in Paris, when this event was

opened to women, and the English Charlotte Cooper first became Olympic champion in tennis. In 1936 , the first Italian woman , Ondina

Valla, won the gold medal in the specialty of the 80-meter hurdles at the Berlin Olympics

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Ondina VallaCharlotte Cooper

Novella Calligaris

Novella Calligaris has a record that no one can ever take away: she is the first Italian athlete to win an Olympic medal

in swimming.

• She started her Olympic career very early, obtaining her first national success at the age of 13.

• At 14, she set her first European record and led Italy to the Olympic podium for the first time at 1972 Summer Olympics, bringing home a silver medal for 400 m freestyle and two bronze medals, for 800 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley.

• In 1973, Novella established a new world record and won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle event and two bronze medals in 400 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley, at the first FINA World Championships in Belgrade.

• In the European Championships in 1974, she won two medals, one silver and one bronze.

• She won a total of 76 Italian titles and broke 21 European records.

• Her career ended at the age of 20 and then she became a journalist.

• Her name is written in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Novella Calligaris

Federica Pellegrini

We have to wait until  Athens 2004 to see another Italian woman to win a world medal in swimming

• She starts swimming in 1995• She is only 14 on her first podium in the Italian

championships in summer 2002•  At the age of 16, she wins the silver medal in

the 200 m freestyle • She holds the women's 200 m freestyle world

records (long course and short course)• She wins a Gold Medal at the 2008 Beijing

Olympics• At the 2009 World Championships in Rome,

Pellegrini becomes the first woman ever to breach the 4 minute barrier in 400 m freestyle with the time 3:59.15.

• She is the first female Olympic champion in the history of Italian swimming

• She is also the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more than one event.

Full of contradictions, dreams and desires, as all girls of her age, Federica wrote a book that is a sort of diary or chronicle of her life, in which she reveals her secrets, recounts her dreams and explains her vision of life. Published in 2007, the book is titled "Mom, can I get my nose pierced?".

Very active in social life and public relations, Federica Pellegrini is a testimonial for ADMO and ambassador in projects related to eating disorders.

Federica Pellegrini

Tania Cagnotto

• Born 15 May 1985 in Bolzano, Tania Cagnotto was the first Italian diver to win a medal at the World Championships.

• Daughter of Giorgio Cagnotto, winner of four diving Olympic medals between the 1970s and 1980s, and Carmen Casteiner, another Italian diver.

• She won her first medal at age 14. • Since then, she has won several other championships in Europe and the

USA. • A participant in the 2004 Summer Olympics, in the European

Tournament in Madrid, she was the gold medallist in the 10-meter platform event and won a bronze medal for her performance in the 3-meter springboard competition.

• After a disappointing performance in the 10-meter platform final round at the Montreal 2005 World Championships, she won the bronze medal in the 3-meter springboard event.

• Cagnotto won a third consecutive bronze medal in the 3-meter springboard at the Rome 2009 World Championships, after a 4th place in the 1-meter springboard event.

• Together with Francesca Dallapè, she also won a silver medal in the 3-meter springboard synchronized event.

Valentina Vezzali

Born in Jesi February 14, 1974.

She has won six Olympic gold medals in foil competitions.

She is one of only four athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event.

Valentina begins to train with constancy, impressing for learning ability and sealing athletics ("she does not seem to feel the fatigue" says the teacher Luigi Novelli)

• At the age of 13, she is the youngest athlete to have won in the history of the category.

• In May 1989, Vezzali becomes world champion in the category ‘cadets’ cancelling the difference in age and in 1990, she wins three consecutive competitions of the World Cup.

• In 1994, she wins her first Italian title.

• In 2013, she takes part in World Championships less than three months after giving birth.

• She is the first fencer in Olympic history to win three Individual Foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

• She also won fourteen gold medals at the World Fencing Championships, six in individual competitions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011) and another eight in team competitions (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013), plus four silver medals (two individual, 1994 and 2006, and two with Italian team, in the same years) and three bronze medals (individual, 1995, 1998 and 2012).

• In European championships, she won nine gold medals (individual: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010; team: 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010), three silver medals (individual: 2003, 2007; team: 2007), two bronze medals (individual: 1993; team: 1998).

Enzo Ferrari• Enzo Anselmo Ferrari was born in Modena in 1898.• He was an Italian motor racing driver and

entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque.

• In 1923 he won the first edition of ‘Grand Prix’ of Savio’s racetrack…

THE BADGE

…on that occasion he received the Prancing Horse badge which was given by Francesco Baracca’s mother.• From that moment the ‘Prancing

Horse’ will become the official badge of Ferrari.

Ferrari carsTHE FIRST MOCK-UP

(1949)

The Ferrari 166 Inter is the first car built by Ferrari, mainly intended for road use, which was filed October 6, 1949 at the Paris Motor Show.

..the evolution..

THE LAST MOCK-UP(2015)

The Ferrari 488 GTB is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Ferrari from 2015.It was filed on 3 February 2015 and the place was the “Saloon of Geneva”.

THE COLOUR

‘RACE RED’

Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red"). This was the customary national racing colour of Italy.In Formula One, the colour was not determined by the country where the car was made but by the nationality of the team entering the vehicle.National colours were mostly replaced in Formula One

by commercial sponsor liveries in 1968, but unlike most other teams, Ferrari always kept the traditional red but the shade of the colour varies. From 1996 to 2007 Ferrari F1 cars were painted in a brighter, almost orange day-glo to adjust for colour balance on television screens.

MEDAL RECORDS

Today Ferrari is the only team that has participated in every edition of Formula 1 World Championsip• The ‘first race’ was in 1948

when Ferrari,with Raymond Sommer, qualified 3° in Grand Prix of Italy.

• In 1951 there was the first mondial win; José Froilan Gonzalez gave to the team its first victory in Grand Prix of United Kindom.

• Ferrari took its 15° World title on 21 October 2007 with Kimi Raikkonen.

The best Ferrari ever built is the next.

‘’Enzo Ferrari’’

We do not forgive anything to

anyone, then you do not forgive

anything to Ferrari either.

‘’Enzo Ferrari’’

The perfect race car is the one that breaks down right after the finishing line.‘’Enzo Ferrari’’

No one remembers who took

second place and that will never be

me.‘’Enzo Ferrari’’

QUOTES ABOUT FERRARI

The ambiguous belongs to

Ferrari as the twelwe-cylinder

engine.

‘‘Niki Lauda’’

Not all Italians cheer for the National team, while all Italians and fifty per cent of non Italians cheer for Ferrari.‘’Gianni Agnelli’’

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.“Michael Schumacher”

We do not invest in advertising... So

racing is the best advertising for

Ferrari.

“Luca Cordero di Montezemolo”

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.“Luca Cordero di Montezemolo”

If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it. “John Surtees”