Aldo Canti

Aldo Canti

Personal information
Born	(1961-03-09) 9 March 1961 (age 64) Montmorency, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	200 metres, 400 metres
Club	Stade Français CESAME

Aldo Canti (born 9 March 1961 in Montmorency, France) is a French and later Sammarinese former sprinter^[2] who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  France
1979	European Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	7th	200 m	21.49
			6th	4 × 400 m relay	40.79
1981	Universiade	Bucharest, Romania	4th (sf)	200 m	21.16
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.50
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.73
1983	European Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	9th (sf)	200 m	21.58
	Universiade	Edmonton, Canada	7th	400 m	46.15
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.89
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	33rd (h)	400 m	47.50
			8th (sf)	4 × 400 m relay	3:05.09
	Mediterranean Games	Casablanca, Morocco	1st	400 m	45.29
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	11th (sf)	400 m	45.59
			17th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:08.33
1985	World Cup	Canberra, Australia	7th	400 m	46.21^1
1986	European Championships	Stuttgart, West Germany	7th	400 m	45.93
			8th	4 × 400 m relay	3:10.17
1987	European Indoor Championships	Liévin, France	5th (sf)	400 m	47.13
	World Championships	Rome, Italy	11th (sf)	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.41
1989	European Indoor Championships	The Hague, Netherlands	7th (h)	400 m	47.41
Representing  San Marino
1991	Games of the Small States of Europe	Andorra la Vella, Andorra	3rd	200 m	21.22
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:25.97
	Mediterranean Games	Athens, Greece	4th	200 m	21.02
			7th	4 × 100 m relay	41.86
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	23rd (h)	200 m	21.95
	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	49th (h)	200 m	21.69
			21st (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.08
1993	Games of the Small States of Europe	Malta	2nd	4 × 100 m relay

¹Representing Europe

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.42 (+1.6 m/s, Montgeron 1987)
• 200 metres – 20.69 (+0.3 m/s, Villeneuve-d'Ascq 1984)
• 400 metres – 45.09 (Zürich 1984)

Indoor

• 200 metres – 21.50 (Budapest 1983)
• 400 metres – 47.13 (Liévin 1987)

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aldo Canti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
2. Aldo Canti at World Athletics

• All-Athletics profile Archived 1 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Aldo Canti at the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme (archive) (in French)
• Aldo Canti at Olympics.com
• Aldo Canti at Olympedia