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Franco Columbu
Sign in to saveItalian bodybuilder and actor (1941–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Coming on strong
- [Bodybuilding course booklets]
- Winning weight lifting & powerlifting
- The businessman's minutes-a-day guide to shaping up
- Franco Columbu's Complete book of bodybuilding
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Ollolai, Nuoro, Italia
An Italian born former bodybuilder, actor and author. Despite his short statue at 5 ft 5 (165cm) he won Mr. Olympia bodybuilding in 1976 and 1981. During a competition in Munich in 1965, he met Arnold Schwarzenegger and the two of them got very close. After Arnolds relocation to USA, he brought Franco over not long after because he missed his best friend. It was a friendship that would last for…
Known for
- How To Become Rambo... Part One — Self2018
- One More Round — Franco Turelli2015
- Rocky IV: The American Punch — Self2014
- Dreamland: The Land of Dreams — Frank2011
- Ancient Warriors — Aldo Paccione2003
- Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' — Self - Mr. Olympia 19812002
- Doublecross on Costa's Island — Enrico Costa1997
- Beretta's Island — Franco "Beretta" Armando1994
- Taken Alive — Enrico Costa1994
- Desperate Crimes — Nerescu1993
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1945-03-23
- Active to
- 2021-05-18
Discography
- Fetus1972
- Pollution1973
- Sulle corde di Aries1973
- “Clic”1974
- M.elle le « Gladiator »1975
- Battiato1977
- L’Egitto prima delle sabbie1978
- L’era del cinghiale bianco1979
- Patriots1980
- La voce del padrone1981
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 32
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings 1PII of original article: S0169-409X(96)00423-1. The article was originally published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 23 (1997) 3–25. 1
· 2001 · cited 10,874x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings
· 1997 · cited 10,415x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,860x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,580x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nickname
- The Sardinian Strongman
- Born
- Francesco Maria Columbu , ( 1941-08-07 ) August 7, 1941, Ollolai , Sardinia , Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- August 30, 2019 (2019-08-30) (aged 78), San Teodoro , Sardinia, Italy
- Height
- 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
- Weight
- Contest: 185 lb (84 kg), Off season: 195 lb (88 kg)
- Best win
- IFBB Mr. Olympia 1976, 1981
- Predecessor
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1975, 1980)
- Successor
- Frank Zane (1977) , Chris Dickerson (1982)
- Active
- Retired after 1981 Mr. Olympia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Family name
- Columbu
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Ollolai
- Place of death
- Olbia
- Occupation
- chiropractor
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- weightlifting
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 84
- Official website
- francescocolumbu.com
- Image
- Franco Columbu Sardegna anni 70.jpg
- Height
- 165
Show 14 more facts
- date of birth
- 1941-08-07
- date of death
- 2019-08-30
- name in native language
- Franco Columbu
- birth name
- Francesco Columbu
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- drowning
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- nickname
- The Sardinian Strongman
- different from
- Franco Colomba
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Franco Columbu
- place of burial
- Ollolai
- significant person
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesco Maria Columbu (August 7, 1941 – August 30, 2019) was an Italian-American bodybuilder and actor.
Originally a boxer, Columbu won the Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981, and competed in the inaugural edition of the World's Strongest Man in 1977, where he placed fifth. He also had an acting career and authored numerous books on bodybuilding and nutrition. Columbu was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2001, International Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 and received the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franco Columbu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.