By The Numbers

[DoubleRBar]

Happy 100th birthday today (Thursday) to an Olympic champion who died at the age of 52. This athlete was 31 when winning the Olympic gold medal and was 35 when taking the Olympic silver medal. Our birthday athlete was the youngest of 5 children and competed in 4 Olympic Games. You should know that this person set an Olympic record with these numbers: 2578. Who is this champion?

[rhymans]

It's Adolfo Consolini,1st in the '48 Discus, and 3 time European champion (1946-54), after placing 5th in his first major championship in Paris in 1938

[DoubleRBar]

Very good, rhymans. Today does mark the 100th anniversary of Adolfo Consolini's birth in Italy. Without looking it up, can anyone name his Italian teammate who took the discus silver medal in London (1948)?

[gh]

I believe that was Silvio Meconi

[DoubleRBar]

Correct number of letters, but wrong name.

[dukehjsteve]

Correct number of letters, but wrong name.

Great Wall of China

[bambam1729]

Great Wall of China

Did I give permission to use my answer??? :-)

[LopenUupunut]

Giuseppe Tosi?

[gh]

ahh, Meconi was 4 times World Ranked in the shot starting in '57.

[DoubleRBar]

Nice job, LopenUupunut. It is Giuseppe Tosi who took the Olympic silver medal in London (1948) and some say he was about as wide as the Great Wall of China.