Gianluca Farina

Gianluca Farina (born December 15, 1962 in Casalmaggiore ) is a former Italian rower and two-time Olympic medalist.

Athletic career

Farina won at the U23 World Championships in 1984 the title in the quadruple sculls . At the 1985 World Championships , he first reached a world championship final in the adult class. With the double fours (Farina, Piero Poli , Renato Gaeta and Stefano Lari ) he finished fifth. In 1986 the Italian double scull rowed with Poli, Gaeta, Antonio Dell'Aquila and Farina to sixth place at the World Championships in Nottingham . In 1987 Poli and Farina competed in a double scull , at the 1987 World Championships they lost the connection and finished sixth.

In the 1988 Olympic season, Poli and Farina moved back into the Italian four-four. In the line-up of Piero Poli, Gianluca Farina, Davide Tizzano and Agostino Abbagnale , the Italian boat won the preliminary, semi-finals and final of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. At the World Championships in 1989 the Dutch won, the Italians rowed with Farina, Filippo Soffici , Davide Tizzano and Giovanni Calabrese to the silver medal. The following year, the double foursome from the Soviet Union won the title at the World Championships in Tasmania . Behind the Swiss, the Italians ( Massimo Paradiso , Filippo Soffici, Gianluca Farina and Alessandro Corona ) fought against the Swedes for the bronze medal, with the Italians five hundredths of a second ahead at the finish. At the 1991 World Championships, the Soviet double foursome won the last appearance of the Soviet national rowing team, the Italians with Farina, Paradiso, Soffici and Corona received the silver medal ahead of the Dutch.

At the Olympic Games in 1992 , the German quadruple won ahead of the Norwegians. The Italian foursome with Farina, Rossano Galtarossa , Corona and Soffici had to fight the Swiss to the finish for the bronze medal and was in the end by six hundredths of a second ahead. The German double foursome also won the 1993 World Championships , with Farina, Paradiso, Galtarossa and Corona taking bronze medals behind the Ukrainians. For Gianluca Farina this was the last big final, at the 1995 World Championships he came in thirteenth in a double scull with Agostino Abbagnale.

Web links

• Gianluca Farina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gianluca Farina at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )