Biography
She competed for Italy in the 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the bronze medal, .06 seconds ahead of Maria Leontyavna Itkina of the Soviet Union.
In 1954 in the European Championships she won the bronze medal in the 4X100 and in the 100 m finished four and five in the 100 m in 1954 and 1958. In 1956 ran European record in 100 m.
Read more about this topic: Giuseppina Leone
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)