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Death. Mennea died on 21 March 2013, in a Rome hospital from pancreatic cancer. [9] [4] [10] [11] [12] He was sixty years old. [4] On the day of his death, the Italian Railways announced that the new superfast train Frecciarossa ETR 1000, entering service in 2014, would carry his name.
Mar 21, 2013 · March 21, 2013. ROME (AP) — Pietro Mennea, an Olympic sprint champion from Italy who held the world record in the 200 meters for 17 years, died here on Thursday. He was 60. His death was...
Mar 21, 2013 · It was with great sadness that the IAAF today received the news that Italian sprinting legend Pietro Mennea passed away this morning (21 March) at a hospital in Rome after a long battle with illness.
Italian 1980 Olympic 100m gold medalist and longtime world 200m record-holder, Pietro Mennea, died today in Rome at 61 after a long battle with a terminal illness.
Mar 21, 2013 · Italy's former 200m world record holder and Olympic champion Pietro Mennea has died, aged 60. The sprinter won 200m gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, beating Britain's 100m champion Alan...
The Italian Olympic Committee said that Mennea had died in hospital in the Italian capital after a long battle against an as yet incurable disease.
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Mar 21, 2013 · Former 200m world record holder Pietro Mennea of Italy died in a Rome clinic Thursday of an unnamed incurable disease. He was 60-years-old. Mennea ran 19.72 seconds to break American Tommie Smith’s eleven-year old record in 1979 during the lead up to the Moscow Games, in which Mannea won gold in the 200m and bronze in the 4x400m relay.
