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| Birth name | Riccardo Guido Leonardo Targetti | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 15, 1952 Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
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Riccardo Targetti (born 15 April 1952) is an Italian former freestyle swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
In his youth, Targetti practiced competitive swimming, winning several Italian titles in freestyle swimming and participating in various prestigious competitions, including the 1972 Olympics in Munich. [2]
Targetti was born and lives in Milan. Married to a Latin and Greek teacher, now an entrepreneur, he has a son who works in Los Angeles in the film industry and a daughter who is a doctor in Milan. [2]
He is the Magistrate of the Public Prosecutor's Office. At the beginning of his career, he dealt with trials against organized crime and then with economic crimes (bankruptcies, false accounting, tax fraud, fraud to the detriment of the State). Over the years he has written many legal articles and is the author of some monographs on criminal law. Later, he devoted himself to writing fiction. [2]
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