Francesco Esposito

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Francesco Esposito (born March 4, 1955 in Castellammare di Stabia , Campania ) is a former Italian rower .

The rower, who is only 1.70 meters tall, together with his partner Ruggero Verroca, won the world championship title in double sculls among the lightweight rowers five times in a row from 1980 to 1984 . Since lightweight rowing was not Olympic until 1996, the two tried to get an Olympic starting place and represented Italy at the 1984 Olympic rowing competitions as lightweights . There they even reached the finals and took fifth place.

1985 Esposito returned to the world championships in lightweight rowing and finished with his new partner Carlo Gaddi in second place behind the French Luc Crispon and Thierry Renault . In 1988 Esposito won the double scull again after four years, this time together with Enrico Gandola . In 1990 and 1992 Esposito won the world title with the lightweight quadruple scull . Esposito won his ninth and final world title in 1994, when he and Michelangelo Crispi won again in a double scull.

In 1996, Francesco Esposito was the first lightweight rower to receive the Thomas Keller Medal from the FISA World Rowing Federation . In 2004 Esposito was named Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana .

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SURNAME Esposito, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Castellammare di Stabia , Campania , Italy