Franco Nones

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Franco Nones
Medal record


Men's cross country skiing
Competitor for Italy
Olympic Games
Gold	1968 Grenoble	30 km
World Championships
Bronze	1966 Oslo	4 x 10 km

Francesco "Franco" Nones (born 1 February 1941) is an Italian former cross country skier who competed during the 1960s.

Biography

Nones was born in Castello-Molina di Fiemme. His best known finish was a gold medal in the 30 km event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, making Nones the first non-Scandinavian (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) and non-Soviet/Russian male to win a Winter Olympic cross country skiing gold medal.

Nones also earned a bronze in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. He also finished 6th in the 30 km event at those same games.

Achievements

1963: 3rd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
1964:
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
1965:
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
1966:
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
1967:
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 50 km
- 2nd, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
1970:
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 30 km
- 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km
1971: 1st, Italian men's championships of cross-country skiing, 15 km

External links

Italian Nordic skiing article on Nones. (Italian)
Franco Nones at the International Ski Federation
2003 Nordic skiing World Championship Miscellaneous information on cross country skiing featuring Nones.

Franco Nones at Sports-Reference.com
Media related to Franco Nones at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing

1956: Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) 1960: Sixten Jernberg (SWE) 1964: Eero Mäntyranta (FIN) 1968: Franco Nones (ITA) 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) 1976: Sergey Savelyev (URS) 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov (URS) 1988: Alexey Prokurorov (URS) 1992: Vegard Ulvang (NOR) 1994: Thomas Alsgaard (NOR) 1998: Mika Myllylä (FIN) 2002: Christian Hoffmann (AUT)

Persondata
Name	Nones, Franco
Alternative names	Nones, Francesco
Short description	Italian cross-country skier
Date of birth	1 February 1941
Place of birth	Castello-Molina di Fiemme
Date of death
Place of death

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