Consolini was the youngest of five children in a farmer family. His first athletics competition was a local stone throwing contest in 1937. A few months later he started training in the discus and won the British
AAA Championships title at the
1938 AAA Championships. Shortly afterwards in September, he finished fifth at the European championships, and in 1939 won the first of his 15 national titles. In 1941 he set a new
world record at 53.34 m, which he extended to 54.23 m in 1946 and to 55.33 m in 1948. Consolini retired from top sport after the 1960 Olympics, but continued competing at the national level until the age of 52, when he threw 43.94 m in Milan. He married Hanny Cuk, an Austrian, and had a son Sergio with her. The family settled in Milan where Consolini worked at
Pirelli company the rest of his life. He died aged 52 from a
viral hepatitis. ==Achievements==