Alessio Sartori

Alessio Sartori (born November 13, 1976 in Terracina ) is an Italian rower who won three Olympic medals.

Career

Sartori won the single title at the Junior World Championships in 1993 and 1994 . In the year of his second junior title, he also won the adult class for the first time when he took the title with the double foursome. After he won his second world title in 1995, a weaker year for the double fours followed in 1996: the crew only rowed to fourth place at the Olympic Games. In 1998 Sartori won his third world championship title, followed by an Olympic gold medal in 2000 with a double quad. After the Olympic victory, Sartori mostly rowed with Rossano Galtarossa in double sculls , in 2003 the two won silver at the World Championships behind the French Sébastien Vieilledent and Adrien Hardy . At the 2004 Olympic Games, the two French won ahead of the Slovenian defending champions Luka Špik and Iztok Čop , behind them Galtarossa and Sartori received the bronze medal.

In 2006 Sartori switched from skull to oar rowing . He won silver with the Italian eighth in 2006, as well as with the four without a helmsman a year later . At the Olympic Games 2008 Sartori finished with the four without but only the eleventh place. From 2009 Sartori returned to the sculling boats and mostly rowed in the Italian quad scull. Together with Romano Battisti , he qualified in 2012 in Lucerne for the Olympic Games in London, where the two won silver in a double scull.

In 2000, after his Olympic victory, Alessio Sartori was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

successes

Olympic games

• 1996 : 4th place in the four-four with Massimo Paradiso , Alessio Sartori, Rossano Galtarossa , Alessandro Corona
• 2000 : Gold in the double fours with Simone Raineri , Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori, Agostino Abbagnale
• 2004 : Bronze in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
• 2008 : 11th place in the four without a helmsman
• 2012 : Silver in a double scull with Alessio Sartori, Romano Battisti

World championships

• 1994: Gold in quadruples with Massimo Paradiso , Alessio Sartori, Rossano Galtarossa , Alessandro Corona
• 1995: Gold in quadruples with Massimo Paradiso, Alessandro Corona, Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
• 1998: Gold in the quad scull with Alessio Sartori, Rossano Galtarossa, Agostino Abbagnale , Alessandro Corona
• 2001: Bronze in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
• 2003: Silver in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
• 2006 : silver in eighth
• 2007 : Silver in a four without a helmsman with Carlo Mornati , Alessio Sartori, Niccolò Mornati , Lorenzo Carboncini

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Web links

• Alessio Sartori in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Alessio Sartori at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )