Dario Dentale

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Dario Dentale (born October 26, 1982 in Castellammare di Stabia ) is a former Italian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 2004 and won two silver medals at world championships.

Athletic career

After Dentale took eighth place in a four-man team at the Junior World Championships in 1999, he competed in a two-man team without a helmsman and won a bronze medal. In 2001 he rowed eighth in Italy and finished eleventh at the World Championships in Lucerne. In 2002 he won the U23 World Championships with the four-man with helmsman . In the adult class, the 2.03 m tall dentist took fifth place at the 2002 World Championships in Seville. In 2003, the Italian eighth finished seventh at the 2003 World Championships in Milan. For the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he switched to the four-man without a helmsman . The Italian boat with Lorenzo Porzio , Dario Dentale, Luca Agamennoni and Raffaello Leonardo won the bronze medal behind the boats from the UK and Canada in Athens.

In 2005, Dentale returned to eighth. The large Italian boat with Lorenzo Carboncini , Niccolò Mornati , Pierpaolo Frattini , Valerio Pinton , Mario Palmisano , Dario Dentale, Raffaello Leonardo, Carlo Mornati and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu, behind the US boat and ahead of the Germans , after the Italians had won once in the World Cup season and twice finished second behind the Germany eighth . In 2006 at the World Championships in Eton, the Germans won ahead of the Italians with Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati, Luca Agamennoni, Alessio Sartori , Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale, Pierpaolo Frattini, Carlo Mornati and Gaetano Iannuzzi and the boat from the United States. After the Italian eighth finished 15th at the 2007 World Championships and thus clearly missed the Olympic qualification, Dentale formed a two without a helmsman in 2008 with Raffaello Leonardo; the two reached eleventh place at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In 2009 both returned to eighth place and finished sixth at the World Championships and fifth at the European Championships .

Dario Dentale rowed for Fiamme Gialle , the sports promotion group of the Guardia di Finanza .

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personal data
SURNAME Dentale, Dario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Castellammare di Stabia