Orazio Cremona
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Born | Johannesburg, South Africa | 1 July 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Monash South Africa[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 148 kg (326 lb) (2014)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Dup de Preeze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Orazio Cremona (born 1 July 1989 in Johannesburg) is a South African athlete specialising in the shot put.[3] He finished seventh at the 2014 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 21.12 metres outdoors (Potchefstroom 2017) and 20.49 metres indoors (Sopot 2014).
Competition record[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing South Africa | |||||
2007 | African Junior Championships | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2nd | Shot put (6 kg) | 17.66 m |
2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 19th (q) | Shot put (6 kg) | 18.28 m |
2010 | African Championships | Nairobi, Kenya | 3rd | Shot put | 18.27 m |
2012 | African Championships | Porto Novo, Benin | 2nd | Shot put | 19.19 m |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 15th (q) | Shot put | 19.42 m |
2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 7th | Shot put | 20.49 m |
Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | Shot put | 20.13 m | |
African Championships | Marrakech, Morocco | 1st | Shot put | 19.84 m | |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 27th (q) | Shot put | 18.63 m |
2016 | African Championships | Durban, South Africa | 5th | Shot put | 19.15 m |
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 23rd (q) | Shot put | 19.81 m |
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 6th | Shot put | 20.51 m |
2019 | African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 5th | Shot put | 20.06 m |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 24th (q) | Shot put | 19.98 m |
References[]
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- South African male shot putters
- South African people of Italian descent
- Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Johannesburg
- Italian South African
- World Athletics Championships athletes for South Africa
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
- African Games competitors for South Africa
- South African Athletics Championships winners
- South African athletics biography stubs