Arturo Paoletti was an Italian

Italy

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 boxer. He was born in Mira, Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

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He won thrice the Italian championships at Ferrara 1937, Terni 1941, and Viareggio 1942, and won the gold medal in the Bantamweight

Bantamweight

Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...

 class at the 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships

1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Breslau, Germany from 20 to 25 January. There were 97 fighters from 11 countries participating: Germany, Hungary, and Italy , and Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...

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Between 1936 and 1942 he was on the Italian national team 13 times, scoring +10 –2 =1.

As a professional boxer, he was an Italian champion in the bantamweight class in 1945–1946. The Arturo Paoletti Memorial is a boxing tournament played in his honour in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

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