Biography
Giovanni De Benedictis won 9 medals at individual level, 7 of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. He participated at two editions of the Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972), he has 42 caps in seventeen years in national team from 1987 to 2004.
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