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}} Emilio Polli (1901 – 1983) was the strongest freestyle swimmer Italian champion until 1931, several times Olympic athlete in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gli Azzurri ai Giochi Olimpici (Italian in Olympic Games) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic Swimmers of Italy: Massimiliano Rosolino, Federica Pellegrini, Filippo Magnini, René Gusperti, Alessia Filippi, Giorgio Lamberti )〕 With a powerful physique, a height not common for those years and a special charisma, Emilio Polli is considered one of the most representative interpreters of the pioneering modern sports era of Italy and Europe. Over the years he won twenty-five italian national titles, and was part of the first historic generation of Italian swimmers able to establish itself in the international arena in the late 1920s and early 1930s.〔Alla ricerca del nuoto perduto by Aronne Anghileri, Ed. SEP, 2002〕 In 1920, at only nineteen years old, Emilio Polli was ranked among the 107° most strongest top swimmers of all time in the world. == Biography == Emilio Polli, start to swim at only 5 years old, in 1906, thanks to his father Pietro which shall enter it the Fin, the Italian Swimming Federation in Como, an entity who was born only a few years before, during a family travel on the lake of Como. He captivate for swimming but also to diving and water polo and thereafter start to swim regularly in Milan at the Canottieri Club Milan, historical for the publics was his initials competitions in the waterway "Navigli", the rivers inside the city of Milan, that immediately attracting thousands of spectators. In 1924 he made his debut in the Italian championships by winning the 100-meter freestyle and backstroke, earning immediately the convocation for the Olympic Games in Paris where he swam in the relay, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition of the Olympic games. During his career, he established the Italian records in the 100 and 200 meters freestyle and in the 100 meters backstroke style. Until 1931 he had never lost freestyle race in an Italian Championship. For six years no-stop, won the Italian Championships ''"100 meters Freestyle"'', 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1931. In the ''"50 meters Freestyle"'' won the Italian championship three times in 1926, 1927 and 1928. In the ''"200 mt. freestyle"'' won the Italian Championships in 1927. But even in the ''"100 mt. backstroke"'' won the Italian Championships three years in a row in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Four years later, in 1928, he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Summer Olympics 100 metre freestyle event. He was also a member of the Italian relay team which was eliminated in the first round of the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay competition. It was the most followed Italian athlete in the Olympic Games of Amsterdam, considered the first real edition of the modern Olympics games. In 1926 are played the first ''"European Swimming Championships"'' of the sport history in Budapest, Emilio Polli, was called like sport icon ambassador of Italy, he was in the final of the 100 meters (7th) and in the final of the 4 × 200 m freestyle, fifth with Renato Bacigalupo, Gianni Patrignani and Bruno Parenzan. In 1927, was organized the Europeans Champhionship in Bologna, Emilio Polli is still a finalist in both races, fifth in the 100m freestyle, and fourth in the relay with Hector De Barbieri, Conelli and Antonio Bacigalupo. Emilio Polli was also champion of water polo and diving. Emilio Polli was the captain of the legendary Italian National Water Polo team during the European Championships of Budapest in 1926, led by the coach Bela Komyadi with Bruno Parenzan, Renato Becigalupo, Gianni Patrignani, Luigi Cangiullo, Antonio Conelli. After visiting several European capitals in its sports trips like Paris, he promoted to sensitize the political world of Milan to open public pools desintate to young people, in 1939 in Milan opens with the design architect Andrea Pizzala, the pool Caimi, where he will attend the inauguration. Polli was the owner and CEO of Polli Food Brothers Corporation, an Italian food and agroindustrial company. 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「Emilio Polli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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