Franco Nones

Italian cross-country skier

Franco Nones

Personal information
Full name| Francesco Nones
Born| 1 February 1941 (1941-02) (age 84)
Castello-Molina di Fiemme, Italy
Sport
Sport| Cross-country skiing
Club| Fiamme Gialle[1]

Medal record

Men's cross-country skiing
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
| 1968 Grenoble | 30 km
World Championships
| 1966 Oslo | 4 x 10 km

Francesco "Franco" Nones (born 1 February 1941) is an Italian former cross-country skier who competed during the 1960s.

## Biography

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A stamp of Franco Nones.

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 medal of any color.

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.

## Achievements

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* 1963: 3rd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
* 1964:
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
* 1965:
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
* 1966:
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
* 1967:
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 50 km
* 2nd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
* 1970:
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
* 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
* 1971: 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km

## Awards

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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]

## See also

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* Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame

## References

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1. ^ "Sport invernali statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
2. ^ "Inaugurata la Walk of Fame: 100 targhe per celebrare le leggende dello sport italiano" (in Italian). coni.it. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

## External links

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* Franco Nones at FIS (cross-country)
* Franco Nones at Olympics.com
* Franco Nones at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
* Franco Nones at Olympedia
* Franco Nones at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation

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Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing

* 1956:  Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)
* 1960:  Sixten Jernberg (SWE)
* 1964:  Eero Mäntyranta (FIN)
* 1968:  Franco Nones (ITA)
* 1972:  Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS)
* 1976:  Sergey Savelyev (URS)
* 1980:  Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
* 1984:  Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
* 1988:  Alexey Prokurorov (URS)
* 1992:  Vegard Ulvang (NOR)
* 1994:  Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
* 1998:  Mika Myllylä (FIN)
* 2002:  Christian Hoffmann (AUT)

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Walk of Fame of Italian sport

First 100 names|

* Gian Giorgio Trissino
* Giovanni Raicevich
* Giorgio Zampori
* Paolo Salvi
* Tazio Nuvolari
* Costante Girardengo
* Nedo Nadi
* Ottavio Bottecchia
* Carlo Galimberti
* Ugo Frigerio
* Alfredo Binda
* Learco Guerra
* Romeo Neri
* Giulio Gaudini
* Primo Carnera
* Giuseppe Meazza
* Silvio Piola
* Gino Bartali
* Agostino Straulino
* Ondina Valla
* Adolfo Consolini
* Alberto Ascari
* Valentino Mazzola
* Edoardo Mangiarotti
* Fausto Coppi
* Zeno Colò
* Fiorenzo Magni
* Giuseppe Delfino
* Piero D'Inzeo
* Cesare Rubini
* Raimondo D'Inzeo
* Irene Camber
* Pino Dordoni
* Eugenio Monti
* Enzo Maiorca
* Antonio Maspes
* Nicola Pietrangeli
* Abdon Pamich
* Lea Pericoli
* Graziano Mancinelli
* Eraldo Pizzo
* Nino Benvenuti
* Livio Berruti
* Sante Gaiardoni
* Franco Nones
* Marco Bollesan
* Franco Menichelli
* Bruno Arcari
* Dino Zoff
* Giacomo Agostini
* Felice Gimondi
* Mauro Checcoli
* Gianni Rivera
* Roberto Marson
* Gigi Riva
* Luciano Giovannetti
* Renato Molinari
* Klaus Dibiasi
* Dino Meneghin
* Adriano Panatta
* Gustav Thöni
* Oreste Perri
* Pietro Mennea
* Pierluigi Marzorati
* Corrado Barazzutti
* Sara Simeoni
* Piero Gros
* Novella Calligaris
* Daniele Masala
* Costantino Rocca
* Gabriella Dorio
* Giuseppe Di Capua
* Alberto Cova
* Ezio Gamba
* Patrizio Oliva
* Gelindo Bordin
* Giuseppe Abbagnale
* Paola Fantato
* Andrea Benelli
* Mauro Numa
* Carmine Abbagnale
* Manuela Di Centa
* Francesco Attolico
* Sandro Campagna
* Luca Pancalli
* Josefa Idem
* Agostino Abbagnale
* Alberto Tomba
* Roberto Baggio
* Lorenzo Bernardi
* Antonio Rossi
* Stefania Belmondo
* Giorgio Lamberti
* Jury Chechi
* Alessandra Sensini
* Andrea Giani
* Giovanna Trillini
* Deborah Compagnoni
* Stefano Baldini
* Domenico Fioravanti

2015 inductees|

* Maurizio Damilano
* Gianni De Magistris
* Duilio Loi
* Francesco Moser
* Enrico Fabris
* Armin Zoeggeler
* Dorando Pietri

2016 inductees|

* Alberto Braglia
* Sandro Mazzinghi
* Paola Pigni
* Mario Fiorillo
* Valentina Vezzali

2018 inductees|

* Luigi Beccali
* Ercole Baldini
* Paolo Maldini
* Samuele Papi
* Massimiliano Rosolino

2019 inductees|

* Sara Anzanello
* Antonella Bellutti
* Roberto Cammarelle

2021 inductees|

* Paolo Rossi
* Alessandro Andrei
* Vincenzo Maenza
* Gabriella Paruzzi
* Paolo Bettini

2023 inductees|

* Flavia Pennetta
* Tania Cagnotto
* Niccolò Campriani
* Fabio Cannavaro
* Amedeo Pomilio
* Giulia Quintavalle
* Carlo Molfetta
* Marco Galiazzo
* Daniele Molmenti
* Antonio Tartaglia
* Günther Huber
* Marco Albarello
* Maurilio De Zolt
* Silvio Fauner
* Giorgio Vanzetta

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