 Malan at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 27 January 2000 [1] Turin, [2] Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giorgio Malan (born 27 January 2000) is an Italian modern pentathlete. He won the gold medal at the 2023 European Games and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics winning the bronze medal.
Malan won bronze in the team relay alongside Matteo Cicinelli at the 2018 Junior World Championships, [3] the gold medal in the individual competition at the 2023 European Games in Poland in June 2023, [4] bronze in the team event at the same Games, [5] and silver in the individual and in the team event at the 2024 European Modern Pentathlon Championships. [6]
He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, qualifying for the final and winning the bronze medal. [7] [8]
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