Bruno Cipolla

v. l. To the right: Renzo Sambo, Bruno Cipolla and Primo Baran 1968

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

1. ^ European championships in two with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de
2. ↑ 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.