Donato Sabia Wiki – Donato Sabia Biography

Donato Sabia was an 800-meter finalist at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 and Seoul in 1988. He died of Covid-19 at the age of 56 on April 8, 20201. According to the press release of the Italian National Olympic Committee, he had been “for a few days” in the intensive care unit of the San Carlo Hospital. from Potenza, in the Basilicata region in southern Italy.

Donato Sabia Age

He was  56 years old.

Donato Sabia Olympics Reward & Career

Sabia won 800m gold at the 1984 championships in Gothenburg and finished fifth and seventh at the distance at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics respectively. He had been hospitalised in intensive care for some days in his native Potenza, in the southern Basilicata region.

Donato Sabia Died Of COVID – 19

According to CONI, he is the first Olympic finalist in the world to die from the virus.

The Italian athletics federation (FIDAL), which described him as “an extraordinarily talented athlete but, above all, a gentle person”, said that Sabia’s father had also died from COVID-19 a few days earlier.

“It’s a tragedy within a tragedy,” said FIDAL president Alfio Giomi in a statement. “Donato was a person who you couldn’t not love.”