Filippo Bottino (9 December 1888 – 18 October 1969) was an Italian heavyweight weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. In 1922 he became the first Italian weightlifter to break a world record, in the

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, and in 1924 he finished sixth at the Paris Olympics. He was made a Knight of the Italian Republic received the Medal of Honour for Sporting Merit.Filippo Bottino
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1888 births 1969 deaths Italian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Italy Weightlifters at the 1920 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century Italian sportsmen Sportspeople from Genoa {{Italy-weightlifting-bio-stub