Carlo Pietro Galimberti

✶August 2, 1894

†August 10, 1939

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About their life

Carlo Galimberti was an Argentine-born Italian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He medaled at each of his Olympic appearances. He died in 1939 from burns sustained in a boiler explosion five days earlier while serving as a firefighter. Two other firefighters also died.

Italian weightlifter (1894-1939)

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Biography from the article Carlo Pietro Galimberti on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.