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| Full name | Francesco Nones | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1941 (age 82) Castello-Molina di Fiemme, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Cross-country skiing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Fiamme Gialle [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Francesco "Franco" Nones (born 1 February 1941) is an Italian former cross-country skier who competed during the 1960s.
Nones was born in Castello-Molina di Fiemme. His best known finish was a gold medal in the 30 km event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, making Nones the first non-Scandinavian (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) and non-Soviet/Russian male to win a Winter Olympic cross-country skiing gold medal.
Nones also earned a bronze in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. He also finished 6th in the 30 km event at those same games.
On 7 May 2015, in the presence of the President of Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), Giovanni Malagò, was inaugurated in the Olympic Park of the Foro Italico in Rome, along Viale delle Olimpiadi, the Walk of Fame of Italian sport, consisting of 100 tiles that chronologically report names of the most representative athletes in the history of Italian sport. On each tile are the name of the sportsman, the sport in which he distinguished himself and the symbol of CONI. One of these tiles is dedicated to Franco Nones. [2]
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