Franco Trincavelli

Franco Trincavelli (born June 7, 1935 in Abbadia Lariana , † November 10, 1983 ibid) was an Italian rower who won two Olympic medals.

Franco Trincavelli was employed by Moto Guzzi in Mandello del Lario ; so he was able to do the sport of rowing in the in-house sports club of Moto Guzzi .

A boat from this sports club was able to qualify for the European Rowing Championships in Bled in 1956 ; Franco Trincavelli, Angelo Vanzin , Romano Sgheiz , Alberto Winkler and helmsman Ivo Stefanoni took third place in the four with helmsman behind the boats from Finland and the Soviet Union.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, the five Italians won the final three seconds ahead of the Swedes and the Finnish European champions; the boat from the Soviet Union had already been eliminated in the semifinals.

In 1957, the entire foursome switched to eighth and won the European Championships in Duisburg.

For the 1960 Olympic Games , some Olympic champions from 1956 returned to the four-man team, which took third place behind the boats from Germany and France in the line-up of Romano Sgheiz, Franco Trincavelli, Fulvio Balatti , Giovanni Zucchi and Ivo Stefanoni.

literature

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

Web links

• Franco Trincavelli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in four with a helmsman
• European championships in eighth