 William Frullani at the 2008 TNT - Fortuna Meeting in Kladno | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1979 Prato, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Combined events | ||||||||||||||||
| Club | C.S. Carabinieri | ||||||||||||||||
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William Frullani (born 21 September 1979 in Prato) is a decathlete and bobsleigh competitor from Italy.
Frullani won two medals, one of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. [1] He set his personal best score (7984 points) in the men's decathlon at the 2002 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis. In 2009 he finished 6th at the European Indoor Championships in Turin in the heptathlon with a national record of 5972 points. [2]
He was married to his combined events fellow, the Ukrainian heptathlete Hanna Melnychenko. [3]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| 2001 | European U23 Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | Decathlon | 7871 pts |
| World Student Games | Beijing, China | — | Decathlon | DNF | |
| 2002 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 8th | Decathlon | 7984 pts |
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 9th | Decathlon | 7863 pts | |
| 2004 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 16th | Decathlon | 7843 pts |
| 2005 | Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | 17th | Decathlon | 7547 pts |
| 2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | — | Decathlon | DNF |
| 2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy | 6th | Heptathlon | 5972 pts  |
| Hypo-Meeting | Götzis, Austria | — | Decathlon | DNF |
He has won 5 times the individual national championship. [4] [5]
Frullani switched to bobsleigh in 2012. [6] He tested positive for methylhexanamine at the 2014 Winter Olympics and was excluded from the Italian team. [7] [8] He was replaced by Samuele Romanini. [9]
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...all'ucraina Ganna Melnichenko, che è la ex moglie del decathleta azzurro William Frullani
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