Benito Rigoni (11 April 1936 – 23 December 2021) was an Italian
bobsled
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Fede ...
der who competed in the early 1960s.
Rigoni was born in
Asiago
Asiago (; Venetian: ''Axiago'', Cimbrian: ''Slege'', German: ''Schlägen'' ) is a minor township (population roughly 6,500) in the surrounding plateau region (the ''Altopiano di Asiago'' or '' Altopiano dei Sette Comuni'', Asiago plateau) in th ...
on 11 April 1936. He won a bronze medal in the
four-man event at the
1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...
in
Innsbruck. Rigoni died in
Dueville
Dueville () is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is south of SP50. As of 2007 Dueville had an estimated population of 13,988.
Twin towns – sister cities
Dueville is twinned with:
* Calatayud, Spain (1989)
* Sc ...
on 23 December 2021, at the age of 85.
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1936 births
2021 deaths
Italian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Asiago
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