Antonino Pizzolato (born 20 August 1996) is an Italian weightlifter, Olympian, and three-time European Champion competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and the 81 kg and 89 kg categories starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the weight classes. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Men's 81 kg, winning a bronze medal.

Career

In 2019 he competed at the 2019 European Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg category winning the gold medal in the clean & jerk and total. Later in 2019 Pizzolato competed at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, he finished in sixth place with a 358 kg total in the 81 kg category.

Antonino Pizzolato

He won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.

Antonino Pizzolato

Major results

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Italian male weightlifters

World Weightlifting Championships medalists

1996 births

Living people

Weightlifters of Fiamme Oro

European Weightlifting Championships medalists

Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic weightlifters for Italy

People from Castelvetrano

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic medalists in weightlifting

Olympic bronze medalists for Italy

Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting

Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy

Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games

Sportspeople from the Province of Trapani

21st-century Italian people

Antonino Pizzolato