Franco De Pedrina

The Italian four-man with helmsman at the European Championships in 1964, De Pedrina sits on the far left.

Franco De Pedrina (born January 27, 1941 in Dongo ) is a former Italian rower .

At the European Championships in 1964 , Franco De Pedrina, Giuseppe Galante , Emilio Trivini and Renato Bosatta rowed with the helmsman Giovanni Spinola in a four with helmsman , the Italians achieved third place behind the boats from the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany. At the Olympic Games in 1964 , the three medal winners of the European Championships won their preliminary run. In the finals, the German boat won ahead of the Italians and the Dutch, while the Soviet European champions came in fifth behind the French.

The 1.84 m tall Franco De Pedrina rowed for the Canottieri Falck from Dongo on Lake Como.

Web links

Franco De Pedrina at olympicchannel.com
Franco De Pedrina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ SportsReference names Campodolcino as the place of birth, Dongo is the place of birth according to Olympicchannel
↑ European rowing championships in a four-man with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de
↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 760f

personal data
SURNAME	De Pedrina, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dongo

[1] SportsReference names Campodolcino as the place of birth, Dongo is the place of birth according to Olympicchannel

[2] European rowing championships in a four-man with a helmsman on sport-komplett.de

[3] Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 760f