Daniel Fontana

Daniel Monzoro Fontana is an Argentine-born Italian professional triathlete, born on 31 December 1975 in General Roca, Rio Negro. He began as a swimmer, started triathlon in 1994 and raced for Argentina at the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished twenty-eighth. After relocating to Italy in 2006 and becoming a naturalized citizen, he competed for the Italian team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and placed thirty-third. He then moved to long-distance racing, finishing second at the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, and on 30 March 2014 he won Ironman Los Cabos, the first Italian to win a race in the Ironman championship series. The article credits him with seven triathlon titles, four for Argentina and three for Italy.