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Uberto De Morpurgo

Who

Uberto De Morpurgo · Sports

What

Italian tennis player; won the singles bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and led Italy's Davis Cup team through the 1920s-30s.

When

1896, Trieste, Austria-Hungary — 1961, Geneva, Switzerland

Where

Trieste · Italy

Biography

Uberto De Morpurgo is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Italian tennis player; won the singles bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and led Italy's Davis Cup team through the 1920s-30s.

How & why

Uberto De Morpurgo was an Italian tennis player who won the men's singles bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics — long Italy's only Olympic tennis medal — and led Italy's Davis Cup team through the 1920s and 1930s, ranking among the world's top ten. He was Jewish on his father's side, from a prominent Triestine family, and was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberto_De_Morpurgo (International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, inducted 1993)

Contributions & Sources

Italian tennis player; won the singles bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and led Italy's Davis Cup team through the 1920s-30s.

1924

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberto_De_Morpurgo (International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, inducted 1993)