Bruno Cipolla
Bruno Cipolla (born December 24, 1952 in Cuneo ) is an Italian athlete who was the helmsman in rowing .
In 1967 Bruno Cipolla replaced Enrico Pietropolli as helmsman from Renzo Sambo and Primo Baran . At the European Championships in 1967 the boat won ahead of the boat from the GDR with Hans-Jürgen Friedrich , Werner Riemann and Manfred Wozniak .
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , the boat from the GDR with Helmut Wollmann , Wolfgang Gunkel and Klaus-Dieter Neubert won in the third run ahead of Sambo, Baran and Cipolla, and the Dutch crew with Herman Suselbeek , Hadriaan van won the third run Nes and Roderick Rijnders in the hope run , which the Dutch won. The GDR boat won the first semi-final ahead of the Dutch, the Italians won the second semi-final ahead of the Danish boat. In the final, the Italians won ahead of the Dutch, while the Danes took the bronze medal with 15 hundredths of a second ahead of the GDR boat.
Cipolla later had an accident with his motorcycle and had to interrupt his rowing career for half a year, in 1971 he ended his sporting career.
Web links
- Bruno Cipolla in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ^ European championships in two with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 125.
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SURNAME | Cipolla, Bruno |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian rowing athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuneo |