Ercole Olgeni

Ercole Olgeni (born December 11, 1883 in Venice , † July 14, 1947 there ) was an Italian rower and Olympic champion .

At the European Championships in 1905, the Belgians won in a four with a helmsman in front of the Italian boat in which Ercole Olgeni and Scipione Del Giudice were sitting. The following year Ercole Olgeni and Scipione Del Giudice won in a pair with helmsman . Two years later, at the European Championships in 1908, the Belgian two-man won ahead of Olgeni and Del Giudice, while Ercole Olgeni, Scipione Del Giudice, Mario Tres , Brenno Del Giudice and Giuseppe Mion won in front of the Belgians. In 1910 , Olgeni rowed the Italian eighth to second place behind the Belgian boat. Olgeni won his third European title in 1911 together with Enrico Bruna in a two-man with helmsman.

After the First World War, Ercole Olgeni competed in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp with Giovanni Scatturin and helmsman Guido De Filip in two. Of four boats entered, three reached the final, where the Italians won ahead of the French and the Swiss. Four years later, Olgeni, Scatturin and helmsman Gino Sopracordevole took third place behind the boats from the Netherlands and Switzerland at the European Championships in 1924 . At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, the Swiss European champions of 1922 and 1923, Édouard Candeveau , Alfred Felber and Émile Lachapelle , who had not competed at the European championships. The Swiss boat won with a tenth of a second ahead of the Italians.

Web links

• Ercole Olgeni in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in two with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ European championships in four with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de
2. ↑ The helmsman's name is not known.
3. ↑ European Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de