Stefano Natale

Stefano Natale was an Italian long-distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He was born on 16 April 1903 and died in 1970. According to Olympic records he was born in Rome and ran for a Roman club, won the Italian marathon championship in 1926 and again in 1929, and led the 1927 London Marathon for fifteen miles before finishing second to the Briton Sam Ferris. At the 1928 Olympics he did not finish the marathon after suffering stomach problems. He remained a competitive runner into the early 1930s, and his third place at the 1931 Italian championship was among his best results in later years. He belongs to the first generation of Italian Olympic marathoners.