Italian boxing biography stubs

Valentino_Manfredonia

Valentino Manfredonia (born 29 September 1989) is a Brazilian-born Italian professional boxer. As an amateur he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's light heavyweight event, in which he was eliminated in the first round by Mikhail Dauhaliavets of Belarus.

Erminio_Spalla

Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer.
Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
He was the first Italian to win a European boxing title, which he did in 1923. He lost it in 1926 to Paulino Uzcudun and retired from boxing the next year, though he briefly returned to the ring in 1934 and won all three of his final bouts. He returned to art after retiring from the ring.
In October 1937 he debuted as an opera singer in Nel Trovatore in Turin. In the same year he also worked in sculpture and painting.
In 1939 he acted in his first film, Io, suo padre by Mario Bonnard. This was followed by over fifty films and television series, including the war film Giarabub (1942). His last film was I fratelli Karamazov by Sandro Bolchi (1969).His elder brother Giuseppe was also a boxer.

Bruno_Visintin

Bruno Visintin (23 November 1932 – 11 January 2015) was a boxer from Italy. He was born in La Spezia, Italy. Visintin was a Light Welterweight (140 lb/63.5 kg) Olympic Bronze Medalist at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. In 1951 he won the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan. He died at the age of 82 in January 2015 at a hospital in La Spezia.

Sergio_Caprari

Sergio Caprari (12 July 1932 – 12 October 2015) was an Italian boxer who won the silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.Caprari was born in Civitacastellana in 1932. He died in 2015.

Ivano_Fontana

Ivano Fontana (25 November 1926 – 24 December 1993) was an Italian boxer. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, losing to gold medal winner Laszlo Papp. He was born in Lucca, Italy.

Loris_Stecca

Loris Stecca (born March 30, 1960) is an Italian former world champion boxer. He is the older brother of former featherweight world champion of boxing, Maurizio Stecca.

Cosimo_Pinto

Cosimo Pinto (born 14 March 1943) is a retired Italian light heavyweight boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Contrary to most of his teammates he remained an amateur and later won a bronze medal at the 1967 European championships.