Bruno Mascarenhas

Bruno Miguel Mascarenhas Antunes (* 16th July 1981 in Lisbon ) is a former Italian lightweight - rowers .

Athletic career

Mascarenhas, who moved from Portugal to Italy with his parents in 1991, won the two-man title at the 1999 Junior World Championships . In the same boat class, but with the lightweight rowers, he won the 2002 U23 world regatta . At the 2002 World Championships , he won the silver medal behind the Danes in the adult class with the four-man in the line-up of Lorenzo Bertini , Catello Amarante , Salvatore Amitrano and Bruno Mascarenhas. The following year they won the 2003 World Championshipsthe Danes ahead of the Dutch, the four Italians rowed in third place. The Italian foursome also won bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, this time behind the Danes and the Australians.

In 2005, Amarante and Amitrano switched to the lightweight two without a helmsman, but Salvatore Di Somma and Elia Luini moved into the four. At the 2005 World Championships, the French won ahead of the Irish, while the Italians rowed the bronze medal with the new line-up. After a fourth place in 2006 , the Italian lightweight four-man again won bronze at the 2007 World Championships in the line-up of Jiri Vlcek , Catello Amarante, Salvatore Amitrano and Bruno Mascarenhas. The British world champions and the French runners-up world champions did not take part in the 2007 European championships , the Italian four-man won the title ahead of the Serbs. The following year came seventh place at the Olympic Games in Beijing . Bruno Mascarenhas won his only world title in 2009 in the lightweight eighth . 2010 followed with the eighth gold at the European championships and bronze at the world championships . In 2011, Mascarenhas competed again in the Rowing World Cup , but then ended his international career.

Web links

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