Amleto Monacelli

Amleto Monacelli is a Venezuelan professional ten-pin bowler, born on 27 August 1961, who built his career on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. He won his first PBA Tour event at the 1987 Japan Cup and went on to collect 20 titles on that tour, a total reached by only a small group of players in the history of the sport. In 1989 he became the first international bowler to be named PBA Player of the Year, an honour he repeated in 1990, and he was also the first international player inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame, in 1997. He entered the USBC Hall of Fame in 2012. He later added ten titles on the PBA50 Tour, five of them majors, and is known as one of the early users of the powerful cranker-style release that shaped the modern game.