Giuseppe Conca (10 March 1904 – 3 October 1972) was an Italian

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

who competed in the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

and

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

. In 1924 he finished 18th in the featherweight class. Four years later he finished fourth in the featherweight class at the Amsterdam Games.

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* 1904 births 1972 deaths Italian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Italy Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics World record setters in weightlifting 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-weightlifting-bio-stub