Giacomo Gentili

Giacomo Gentili (born July 3, 1997 in Cremona ) is an Italian rower .

In 2015 Gentili won the title in the single at the Junior World Championships . In the same year he joined Romano Battisti in double sculls at the World Championships in the adult class and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games. There Battisti, however, competed with Francesco Fossi . Gentili tried in vain to qualify for the Olympic Games in 2016 with the double scull. At the U23 World Championships , Gentili won bronze in the quadruple in 2016.

At the 2017 European Championships , the Italian double scull with Romano Battisti, Andrea Panizza , Giacomo Gentili and Emanuele Fiume won bronze behind the boats from Lithuania and Poland. At the end of July 2017, the Italians and Gergo Cziraki won bronze for Battisti at the U23 World Championships . Battisti, Panizza, Gentili and Fiume took twelfth place at the world championships in the adult class. In 2018, Panizza and Gentili formed the new Italian double four with Filippo Mondelli and Luca Rambaldi . This crew won the title at the European Championships before the Lithuanians and the Poles. At the World Championships, the Italians won ahead of the Australians and the Ukrainians. The following year, the four Italians behind the boat from the Netherlands won the silver medal at the 2019 European Championships in Lucerne. At the World Championships in Linz, the Italians won the bronze medal behind the Dutch and the Poles.

Giacomo Gentili starts for Fiamme Gialle , the sports department of the Guardia di Finanza .

Web links

• Giacomo Gentili at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Portrait at fiammegialle.org (accessed September 29, 2018)