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Born | Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina | 2 July 1894||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 August 1939 Milan, Italy | (aged 45)||||||||||||||||||||
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Carlo Galimberti (2 July 1894 – 10 August 1939) was an Argentine-born Italian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He died in 1939 from burns sustained in a boiler explosion five days earlier while serving as a firefighter. Two other firemen also died. [1] [2]
Galimberti grew up in Rosario, Argentina, as son of Italian immigrants, and came back to Milan, Italy, after the First World War. He won a gold medal in the middleweight class in 1924, a silver medal in the middleweight class in 1928 and another silver medal in the middleweight class in 1932.