Amateur Highlights
- 1956 Italian Welterweight Champion
- 1957 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1957 European Light Middleweight Champion
- 1958 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1959 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1959 European Light Middleweight Champion
- 1960 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- Won the Welterweight Gold Medal for Italy at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. Results were:
- Defeated Jean Josselin (France) points
- Defeated Ki-Soo Kim (South Korea) points
- Defeated Chichman Mitzev (Bulgaria) points
- Defeated Jimmy Lloyd (Great Britain) points
- Defeated Yuri Radonyak (Soviet Union) points
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“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favourite; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”
—Freya Stark (1893–1993)