He was the first and only centenary athlete to have made a qualifying triple jump for his Masters category (M100, or those 100 years of age and older).

[4][5] After serving in the Italian Air Force during World War II, he spent his career as a men's tailor.

He married Alba Michelini and has three children: Paolo, Marzia and Matelda.

[6] At the suggestion of the brothers Paolo and Giuliano Costantini, he started masters athletics in the late 1980s.

At age 94 he bought a wireless ADSL computer, at 97 he enrolled in the University of the Third Age in Fossombrone and at the Indoor World Championship in Budapest he won 10 gold medals, unmatched record.