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Bruno Pauletto (born 21 January 1954) is a Canadian former track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. An Italian-born athlete, he represented Canada internationally. His greatest honour was the shot put gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. Pauletto also won a Commonwealth silver in 1978 and a bronze medal at the 1979 Pan American Games. A three-time Canadian national champion, he had a lifetime best of . He represented Canada at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. After his career as an athlete he became a strength coach and then, with his wife, founded a sports and fitness accessories business called Power Systems, Inc. ==Career== Born in Portogruaro, Italy,〔( LISTE ITALIANE ALL TIME ). FIDAL (2014-08-06). Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕〔(Former strength coach receives NSCA Award ). UT Sports (2008-07-31). Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 he went to study at Central Michigan University in the late 1970s and competed in the shot put collegiately for their team, the Central Michigan Chippewas. While there he came fifth at the 1977 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, won the American collegiate title at the 1978 NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship, before finally taking the runner-up spot at the NCAA Outdoors in 1978. He had much success in the Mid-American Conference, winning the indoor and outdoor titles from 1976 to 1978 and setting a conference record of . He also won the 1977 conference title in the discus throw. He was inducted into the university's hall of fame in 1990.〔(Bruno Pauletto ). Chippewas. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕〔(NCAA Indoor Championships ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 Internationally, Pauletto competed for Canada, after taking Canadian citizenship. At his first major competitions for his adoptive country, he placed fifth at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and was runner-up at the 1977 Pacific Conference Games, behind American Colin Anderson.〔(I World Cup, Düsseldorf 1977 ). Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕〔(Pacific Conference Games ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 The following year he won his first national title at the Canadian Track and Field Championships. He went on to win two further national titles in 1980 and 1983 – the former win coming in a championship record of , which stood until 2001. Between 1976 and 1983, only he and Bishop Dolegiewicz won the honour, with the pair dominating the national scene.〔(Canadian Championships ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 His first medal at a major games came in 1978 at the Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Canada. On home turf, he took the silver medal behind England's Geoff Capes with a throw of , and national rival Dolegiewicz completed the podium in third. He gave a better performance at the 1979 Pan American Games, clearing , but on that occasion his placing with Dolegiewicz was reversed, as Pauletto claimed the bronze while American Dave Laut won with a throw beyond twenty metres. Another podium finish came for Pauletto at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, where he improved one place to claim the gold medal with a mark of ahead of the English champion Mike Winch. This made him the third Canadian to win the shot put at the Commonwealth Games after Dave Steen and women's champion Jane Haist.〔(Commonwealth Games ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕〔(Pan American Games ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 His last year of high-level competition was in 1983. He gave the best performance of his career in May, throwing a lifetime best mark of at a meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee. After winning his third and final Canadian title, he was selected for the 1983 World Championships in Athletics. At the inaugural edition of the global event, he ranked 17th in qualifying in the European-dominated discipline.〔(Bruno Pauletto ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 Pauletto took the job of Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Tennessee in 1981 and continued to serve in the role after he stopped competing, up until 1993. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Strength and Conditioning Association in the United States in 2008 for his services to the discipline.〔 In 1986, he and his wife, Julie Pauletto, started Power Systems, Inc – a company for sports performance and fitness accessory products. The business proved a success, growing from a home-based operation to a major seller of such products in the region by 2011, with a 200,000 square foot facility in Tennessee.〔(Power Systems’ President Pauletto Celebrates 25 Years Of Service ). CoachAD (2011-03-09). Retrieved on 2015-04-02.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruno Pauletto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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