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The Italian former middle-distance runner Donato Sabia has died from Covid-19 at the age of 56, the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) has announced. Coni said in a statement that Sabia, who twice reached the 800m Olympic final, had been in the intensive care unit of the San Carlo hospital on Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, for a few days.
Sabia finished fifth in the 800m final at Los Angeles in 1984 and seventh in Seoul four years later. He won the gold medal in the same event at the European Indoor Championships in 1984. According to Coni, he is the first Olympic finalist in the world to die from the virus.
