Lorenzo Calafiore

Lorenzo Calafiore was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy who won two medals at the European championships of 1969–1970. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, aged 37, and finished in sixth place.

Biography

His father Francis died of a heart attack when Calafiore was a few months old. Soon after that his mother, Josephine Agostini, married Antonio Mauro, a widower with four children. The pair later had ten more children. Calafiore took up wrestling aged 20; at 26 he won his first national title and was included to the national team. On 2 May 1965 he married Catherine Logiudice; they had two children, Francis and Giuseppina. Calafiore retired from competitions in 1974, and two years later started working as a coach. He retired for good in 2000 to help raising his grandchildren. He died of a heart attack in 2011.