LOMBARDO Manuel

World Championships

Year	Location	-66 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	2
2019	Tokyo, JPN	5

European Championships

Year	Location	-66 kg
2021	Lisbon, POR	1
2020	Prague, CZE	17
2019	Minsk, BLR	9
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	9

World Masters

Year	Location	-66 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	9
2019	Qingdao, CHN	1

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2019	-66 kg	1x	1x	-	2x	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-66 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2017	-66 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-66 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2018	-66 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2017	-66 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2018	-66 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-66 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
1	2019	-66 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
2	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Brasilia, BRA
3	2018	-66 kg	World Cup	Oberwart, AUT
3	2017	-66 kg	World Cup	Bucharest, ROU
5	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
5	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
9	2019	-66 kg	Grand Prix	Tbilisi, GEO
9	2017	-66 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
17	2018	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
17	2018	-66 kg	Grand Prix	The Hague, NED
17	2017	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	-66 kg
2018	Nassau, BAH	1
2017	Zagreb, CRO	5

L'Incredibile [The Incredible]. (gazzetta.it, 19 Oct 2019)

Athlete

Italian

Centro Sportivo Esercito [ITA] / Akiyama Settimo Torinese [ITA]

Pierangelo Toniolo [Akiyama], ITA; Francesco Bruyere [national], ITA

His older brother Daniel has competed internationally in judo, and won bronze in the -60kg category at the 2016 European Open in Tallinn, Estonia. (gazzetta.it, 19 Oct 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 19 Dec 2019)

He took up the sport at age three. (video.sky.it, 19 Nov 2019)

He wanted to follow his brother into judo. "After the first lessons I didn't stop. At the beginning it was my after-school activity, where I could have fun and meet friends. But then it became something more serious. Today it is my job but it is also my passion, and an important part of my life without which I cannot even imagine." (video.sky.it, 19 Nov 2019; sportorino.com, 10 Oct 2018)

Winning his first gold medal at the 2014 Cadets European Cup event in Pitesti, Romania. (judoinside.com, 30 May 2020)

"The results are nothing but the confirmation of the good work I am doing. They encourage me, because I will certainly not stop here." (sportorino.com, 10 Oct 2018)

He was named 2018 Best European Judoka by the European Judo Union [EJU]. (torinosportiva.it, 06 Jun 2019)