TELESCA Donato

Italy

Powerlifting

Date of Birth: 5 Feb 1999

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Sport Class: PWL

Place of birth: POTENZA

Birth Country:

Italy

Place of residence : ROME

Residence Country:

Italy

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Powerlifting	Men's -80 kg	6

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo International Forum	Men's -80 kg Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
6	-72 kg	2019	Nur-Sultan, KAZ	181.0
European Open Championships
NoM	-72 kg	2018	Berck-sur-Mer, FRA	NoM

Hobbies:

Stock trading, table football, wrestling, travelling, reading. (Instagram profile, 20 May 2021; comitatoparalimpico.it, 14 Feb 2019; gazzetta.it, 13 Mar 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Economics, Management - LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, ITA

Languages spoken:

English, French, Italian, Spanish

Coach:

Alessandro Boraschi [national]

Other sports:

He has competed in the Italian Serie B table football championships. (repubblica.it, 14 Sep 2018)

Start:

He began powerlifting in 2016 in Pietragalla, Italy. (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019)

Reason:

He took up the sport as a hobby. "My heroes were the Hulk and the Marvel superheroes, they gave me the desire to be the strongest I could be. I soon realised that I had something more than the others. I was always the best despite being the smallest. At 17, I entered my first competition and started winning." (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019; sport.luiss.it 12 Mar 2021)

Ambition:

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (sport.luiss.it 12 Mar 2021)

Training:

He trains twice a day, up to four hours each day, at the Giulio Onesti Olympic Training Centre in Rome, Italy. (gazzetta.it, 13 Mar 2020)

Memorable:

Winning a gold medal in the 72kg category at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Mexico City, Mexico. (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019)

Hero:

Egyptian Para powerlifter Sherif Osman. (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019)

Influence:

His friends. (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019)

Philosophy:

"Failure is part of having success. There are a few things you can learn from success, but there are many more that you can learn from failure. You need to be better than yesterday in competition, in sport, but most importantly in life." (paralympic.org, 24 Mar 2021)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (comitatoparalimpico.it, 14 Feb 2019)

Impairment Details
He had a domestic accident at age three that resulted in the amputation of both his legs. (Athlete, 11 Jul 2019; comitatoparalimpico.it, 14 Feb 2019)

General
COMBINING STUDY AND SPORT
Away from Para powerlifting, he is an economics and management student at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, Italy, and says balancing his studies with sport is often challenging. "It certainly isn't easy. The main difficulty is not managing time, but staying focused. After a heavy workout, it is not easy to start studying or vice versa. The real difficulty is that it takes a great deal of willpower to find the concentration necessary to do well in both." (sport.luiss.it 12 Mar 2021; Instagram profile, 04 Feb 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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