Elia Luini

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Luini (far left) at the 2013 World Championships award ceremony

Elia Luini (* 23. June 1979 in Gavirate ) is an Italian lightweight - rowers , who from 1998 to 2013 an Olympic silver medal and won ten World Cup medals.

Career

In 1997 Luini won the bronze medal in the single at the Junior World Championships . At the 1997 World Championships in the adult class, Luini competed in the lightweight single and finished seventh. In 1998 Luini won his first two World Cup regattas with the lightweight quadruple, the Italian four also won the 1998 World Championships in Cologne. In the following year, Luini drove in the lightweight four without a helmsman, at the 1999 World Championships the Italians took fourth place.

In 2000 Luini switched to the lightweight double scull, together with Leonardo Pettinari he won the Olympic silver medal at the 2000 Olympic regatta in Sydney behind the Polish boat. In 2001 Luini and Pettinari lost to the German two at the World Cup in Seville, after which Luini and Pettinari began a winning streak with three world championship titles and six World Cup victories up to the 2004 Olympic Games. In the 2004 Olympic regatta, the two were defeated in the preliminary run and were only able to win through the reunion and semi-finals qualify for the B-final, there Pettinari no longer competed, Luini together with Nicola Moriconi took the last place in the B-final.

In 2005 Luini competed in the World Cup with Bruno Mascarenhas in the lightweight double scull, for the 2005 World Championships the two switched to the lightweight four without a helmsman, with which they won the bronze medal. In 2006 Luini returned to the double scull, together with Marcello Miani he won two World Cup regattas and once finished second behind the Danes Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist , the Danes also won the 2006 World Championships ahead of Luini and Miani. In 2007 Luini and Miani had a significantly weaker season compared to the previous year, after finishing fifth in the World Cup was the best place, they also finished fifth in the 2007 World Championships . In 2008 things went a little better, but at the Olympics Luini and Miani rowed just past the medals and finished fourth.

In 2009 in Munich the two won another World Cup regatta after three years, at the 2009 World Championships they received the bronze medal behind the New Zealanders and the French. At the European Championships , Luini and Lorenzo Bertini won silver behind the Greek double scull and ahead of the French. Bertini and Luini also rowed in double sculls in 2010, after a second and fourth place in the World Cup and sixth place at the European Championships , the silver medal behind the British at the World Championships meant a rather unexpected success. At the 2011 World Championships , Bertini and Luini received the bronze medal behind the British and New Zealanders, and at the end of the season they both won the title at the European Championships in Plovdiv . In 2012 Luini competed in the World Cup with Bertini, but like eight years earlier, he had to compete in the Olympic Games with another partner: Together with Pietro Ruta, he missed the Olympic final and finished seventh as the winner of the B final.

In 2013 Luini returned to oar rowing after many years . After a fourth place in the World Cup with the four without a helmsman, Luini won silver in the two without a helmsman behind the Swiss boat at the World Championships .

With a height of 1.84 meters, Luini has a typical competition weight of around 70 kilograms for lightweights .

Medals at international championships

(OS = Olympic Games; WM = World Championships; EM = European Championships)

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personal data
SURNAME Luini, Elia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Gavirate