Catello Amarante (rower, 1979)

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Catello Amarante (* 15. August 1979 in Castellammare di Stabia ) is a former Italian lightweight - rowers .

Athletic career

Amarante won at the unofficial U23 World Championships in 1998 the title in the lightweight foursome with helmsman. In the same year he competed with Carlo Gaddi at the world championships in the adult class and won the silver medal in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman. In 1999 Amarante switched to the Olympic boat class, lightweight foursome without a helmsman . At the 1999 World Championships , the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2001 World Championships , he missed the medal ranks with fourth place.

It was not until the 2002 World Championships that he won the silver medal behind the Danes with the four-man made up of Lorenzo Bertini , Catello Amarante, Salvatore Amitrano and Bruno Mascarenhas . The following year, the Danes won the 2003 World Championships ahead of the Dutch, while the four Italians rowed across the finish line 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. In this boat class, too, the Danes won the title at the 2005 World Championships , behind the Chilean two, the Italians won bronze. In 2006 Amarante returned to the foursome and finished fourth at the World Championships . In 2007, Amitrano also returned to the foursome, who won bronze at the 2007 World Championships together with Jiri Vlcek 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. After a seventh place at the 2008 Olympic Games , Amarante finished fifth at the 2009 World Championships in a four-man. At the end of his career, Amarante entered the 2011 World Championships with the lightweight eighth and won the silver medal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Catello Amarante is listed with the suffix I by the World Rowing Association. A rower of the same name born in 1990 received the addition II.
personal data
SURNAME Amarante, Catello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Castellammare di Stabia