Bruno Pauletto

Bruno Pauletto (born 21 January 1954) is a physiologist, an author, a business manager, a former coach, and a former Canadian track and field athlete.

He graduated from CMU and UT, and he published several books and articles on exercise physiology.

This made him the third Canadian to win the shot put at the Commonwealth Games after Dave Steen in 1970 and women's champion Jane Haist in 1974; Canada had to wait for 28 years until another shot putter, Dylan Armstrong, brought back a Commonwealth gold medal again.

During his athletic career, he specialized in the shot put events, active 1974 to 1983.

An Italian-born athlete, he represented Canada internationally.

He set the national Italian record and later became Canadian national record holder in the outdoor shot put.

The former title remained unbeaten for six years and the latter for eighteen years.

To date he still holds the provincial record of Quebec.

A three-time Canadian national champion, he had a lifetime best of.

Bruno Pauletto, MS, CSCS, FNSCA, grew up in Portogruaro, Italy, and Sept-Îles, Quebec, and he graduated as exercise physiologist from the University of Tennessee.

Pauletto's first Canadian Championship participation was in Edmundston on March 2–3, 1974.

Between 1976 and 1983, only he and Bishop Dolegiewicz won the honour, with the pair dominating the national scene.

He also took part in the first IAAF World Cup in Düsseldorf in 1977 and the first IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki in 1983 as a member of the Canadian team and was selected twice for the Olympic Games.

He also competed in discus throw.

At his first major competition for his adoptive country he placed fifth with at the first IAAF World Cup, in Düsseldorf on September 2, 1977, and in the same year was runner-up at the 1977 Pacific Conference Games, behind American Colin Anderson.

Bruno Pauletto earned his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology in 1978 from the Central Michigan University (CMU), where he was on a track and field scholarship.

In the year 1978 he furthermore:

Altogether Bruno Pauletto was a three-time All-America shot putter: indoor in 1978 and outdoor in 1977 and 1978.

His first medal at a major game came in 1978 at the Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

On home turf, he took the silver medal behind England's Geoff Capes with a throw of, and national rival Dolegiewicz completed the podium in third.

A year later he participated in the 1979 Pan American Games and placed third.

Later Pauletto set the best Italian shot put mark in 1979 with a throw during an outdoor event in Milan, Italy, on June 23.

Pauletto, who was then competing with the club Telettra-Atletica Rieti, contributed with this throw to place his team sixth at the 1979 National Club Championship.

He gave a better performance at the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July 1979, clearing, but on that occasion his placing with Dolegiewicz was reversed, as Pauletto claimed the bronze while American Dave Laut won with a throw beyond twenty metres.

In 1980 he took his Master of Science in Exercise Physiology at the University of Tennessee (UT).

While at Central Michigan University he competed in the shot put collegiately for their team, the Central Michigan Chippewas, and:

Representing CMU he had much success in the Mid-American Conference:

In 1980 he broke the Canadian record in Sherbrooke with a throw.

Having already practiced as coach for strength training and conditioning since 1981, Pauletto devoted his life to coaching as from the 1984 season.

Bruno Pauletto represented Canada at two consecutive Commonwealth Games: he won the gold medal in the men's shot put event at the XII Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982, after striking silver in 1978.

Pauletto captured the gold medal at the XII Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982 with a mark of ahead of the English champion Mike Winch.

On 22 May 1983 he established his personal best in shot put with a throw, achieved at an outdoor event in Knoxville, Tennessee and reaching a new Canadian national senior record.

Pauletto's 1983 record was to stay for 18 years, until Brad Snyder broke it by 2 cm at the 2001 World Championships, with a heave of.

Pauletto also took part at the First IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki in 1983 as a member of the Canadian team, where he participated in the shot put event ranking 17th in qualifying.

This performance remained the national Italian record until Marco Montelatici beat it in May 1985 with 20.90 m.

He created his own company in 1986, published several articles, videos and three textbooks on strength training, and ultimately was nominated president of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) where he also was a member of several committees.

Bruno Pauletto received two national awards for his coaching performances and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Central Michigan Chippewas.

Since 1990 Pauletto is an inductee of the Hall of Fame of the Central Michigan Chippewas.

Internationally, Pauletto competed for Canada after taking Canadian citizenship.

Thanks to that performance Bruno Pauletto ranks fourth in the list of the top 10 Canadian all-time outdoor ranking (as of 23 July 2012), and he still holds (as of 2013) the outdoor provincial record of Quebec.