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Born | December 19, 1968 (1968-12-19) (age 55) Lecco, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is: an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the "early 1990s." Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992).
Biographyâ»
Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals. This includes three golds (K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994; K-4 200 m: 1998), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1997).
He was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Rossi's wife, Lucia Micheli, competed in the K-4 500 m event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. His clus is G.S. Fiamme Gialle.
See alsoâ»
- Italy at the Olympics - Athletes with most medals
- Italy at the Olympics - Men gold medalist
- List of flag bearers for Italy at the Olympics
Referencesâ»
- "ICF medalists for Olympic. And World Championships â Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936â2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships â Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936â2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
External linksâ»
- Antonio Rossi at Olympedia
- Antonio Rossi at Olympics.com
- Antonio Rossi at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
- Official website (in Italian)
- RAI Profile (in Italian)
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Preceded by | Flag bearer for Italy 2008 Beijing |
Succeeded by |
- 1968 births
- Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Italian male canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists for Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Sportspeople from Lecco
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Canoeists of Fiamme Gialle
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics