Teseo Taddia (20 April 1920 – 23 December 1982) was a

hammer throw The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, javelin. The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools a ...

er from Italy. He won three medals, at senior level, at the

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He twice competed for his native country at the

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: in 1948 and 1952. Born in

Bondeno Bondeno ( Bondenese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Ferrara, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located about north of Bologna and about northwest of Ferrara. The municipality of Bondeno contains the ''frazioni'' (sub ...

Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...

he set his personal best (59.17 metres) in the men's hammer throw event in 1950. He won fourteen hammer throw

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senior Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ...

level in 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956. Taddia won the British

AAA Championships The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost domestic athletics event in the United Kingdom during its lifetime, despite the existence of the offi ...

title in the hammer throw event at the 1951 AAA Championships.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taddia, Teseo 1920 births 1982 deaths Italian male hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Italy European Athletics Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Sportspeople from the Province of Ferrara Athletes from Emilia-Romagna Italian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Italian sportsmen

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