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{{short description|Italian artistic gymnast}}
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| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|08|03}}
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| height          = 163 cm
| discipline      = MAG
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| club            = Associazione Ginnastica Romana<ref name=sr>[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/franco-menichelli-1.html Franco Menichelli] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523080339/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/franco-menichelli-1.html |date=23 May 2015 }}. sports-reference.com</ref>
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{{MedalCountry|{{ITA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold  | [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Floor exercise]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Rings]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]]  | [[Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Floor]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]]  | [[Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Parallel bars]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1962 Prague]] |Floor}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1966 Dortmund]] |Floor}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1966 Dortmund]] |Rings}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|1965 Antwerp|All-around}}
{{MedalBronze|1967 Tampere|All-around}} 
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'''Franco Menichelli''' (born 3 August 1941) is a retired Italian gymnast. He competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one gold, one silver, and three bronze 
medals.

==Biography==
He was most successful in 1964, when he won a gold on the floor, a silver on rings and a bronze on parallel bars.<ref name=sr/> He severely injured an [[Achilles tendon]] on landing during the floor exercise at the 1968 Olympics, and retired shortly thereafter.<ref name=r2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080930104117/http://www.storiedisport.it/schede/ginnastica/01.htm Storie di ginnastica l'imperatore del giappone franco menichelli, storia di un campione]. storiedisport.it</ref> From 1973 to 1979 he coached the national gymnastics team.<ref name=r1>[http://www.medagliedoro.org/atleta/franco-menichelli Franco Menichelli]. medagliedoro.org</ref> In 2003 he was inducted into the [[International Gymnastics Hall of Fame]].<ref name=hall>[http://www.ighof.com/honorees/2003_Franco_Menichelli.php Franco Menichelli]. ighof.com</ref>

His brother [[Giampaolo Menichelli]] was an international football player.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

==Awards==
On 7 May 2015, in the presence of the President of [[Italian National Olympic Committee]] (CONI), [[Giovanni Malagò]], was inaugurated in the [[Olympic Park]] of the [[Foro Italico]] in [[Rome]], along ''Viale delle Olimpiadi'', the [[Walk of Fame of Italian sport]], consisting of 100 tiles that chronologically report names of the most representative athletes in the history of Italian sport. On each tile are the name of the sportsman, the sport in which he distinguished himself and the symbol of CONI. One of these tiles is dedicated to Franco Menichelli.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coni.it/it/component/content/article.html?id=9832:inaugurata-la-walk-of-fame|title=Inaugurata la Walk of Fame: 100 targhe per celebrare le leggende dello sport italiano|publisher=coni.it|language=it|access-date=11 October 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Sports links}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Floor Men}}
{{Footer European Artistic Gymnastics All-Around Champions (Men)}}
{{European Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Floor Exercise}}
{{European Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Rings}}
{{European Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's horizontal bar}}
{{International Gymnastics Hall of Fame members}}
{{Walk of Fame of Italian sport}}
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[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Italian male artistic gymnasts]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gymnasts for Italy]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Italy]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Italy]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Italy]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
[[Category:European champions in gymnastics]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian sportsmen]]