Asfò Bussotti

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameAsfò•Bussotti
Used nameAsfò•Bussotti
Born2 December 1925 in Firenze, Firenze (ITA)
Died24 December 1987 in Firenze, Firenze (ITA)
AffiliationsGiglio Rosso, Firenze (ITA)
NOC Italy

Biography

Firenze’s Asfò Bussotti was an Italian distance runner. Internationally, he collected only one appearance with the Italian national team – in the 1952 Olympic Games marathon at Helsinki. At 15 km. he was around 20th and he was 14th at 25 km., but then suffered cramps and finished 46th.

In Italy Bussotti won two Italian half-marathon championships (1950, 1952) and one marathon title (in his first experience over that distance), on 4 November 1951 in Palermo, beating the Olympians Artidoro Berti and Michele Fanelli, and also recorded his personal best.

Personal Best: Mar – 2-48:55 (1951).

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1952 Summer Olympics Athletics ITA Asfò Bussotti
Marathon, Men (Olympic) 46