GIOVANNI ABAGNALE

SPECIALITY Pair (2-)

Date of birth: 11/01/1995

Place of birth: Gragnano

Height x weight: 1,98 x 90

First Club: CN Stabia

Club: Marina Militare

First Coach: Antonio La Padula

Coach: Giovanni Lepore

Other sports: Basketball

Hobby: Reading

Relationship Status: Single

Olympic Club: Yes

Olympic Games Participation:

1 (Rio 2016)

Biography

Just one ‘B’ sets his surname apart from that of the brothers who made rowing history, and it is in their wake that he is also making his contribution to expand Italy’s series of successes in this discipline. It looked as though he was going to follow a career in basketball, until a teacher at school convinced him to give rowing a go. Sacrifices and crack-of-dawn alarms abounded, but along with them came plenty of healthy competition and an environment that he found exhilarating. At the age of just 20, he won his first Olympic medal: an important result that give him an injection of enthusiasm and spirit to train even harder. In Rio, he managed to win a surprising bronze, and he has placed no limits on his abilities for Tokyo.

Palmares

Print

Olympic Games

Rio (BRA) 2016 – 2 senza

World Championships

9° Amsterdam (NED) 2014 – Otto

6° Aiguebelette (FRA) 2015 – Otto

Sarasota (USA) 2017 – 4 senza

5° Plovdiv (BUL) 2018 – Otto

4° Linz (AUT) 2019 – 4 senza   

European Championships

Belgrado (SRB) 2014 – 4 senza

Račice (CZE) 2017 – 4 senza

4° Glasgow (GBR) 2018 – 4 senza

4° Lucerna (SUI) 2019 – 2 senza 

Poznan (POL) 2020 – 4 senza

Varese (ITA) 2021 – 4 senza