Giuseppe Abbagnale

Giuseppe Abbagnale
nation	Italy
birthday	July 24, 1959
place of birth	Pompei , Italy
size	187 cm
Weight	97 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing , belt
society	CN Stabia, Naples
National squad	since 1976
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 7 × 2 × 1 × Match of the senior 1 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Los Angeles 1984 Two with stm. gold Seoul 1988 Two with stm. silver Barcelona 1992 Two with stm.  World championships gold Munich 1981 Two with stm. gold Lucerne 1982 Two with stm. bronze Duisburg 1983 Two with stm. gold Hazewinkel 1985 Two with stm. silver Nottingham 1986 Two with stm. gold Copenhagen 1987 Two with stm. gold Bled 1989 Two with stm. gold Tasmania 1990 Two with stm. gold Vienna 1991 Two with stm. silver Račice 1993 Two with stm.  U23 world championships silver Hazewinkel 1978 Two with stm. silver Örkelljunga 1979 Two with stm. gold Essen 1981 Two with stm.
Last change: 2016-07-01

Giuseppe Abbagnale (born July 24, 1959 in Pompei ) is a former Italian rower and current rowing official. He won two Olympic gold medals and was a seven-time world champion.

Career

Giuseppe Abbagnale, together with his younger brother Carmine Abbagnale and the helmsman Giuseppe Di Capua, dominated the two-man competitions for over a decade . After Abbagnale had already been successful in this boat class in the Match des Seniors at the end of the 1970s , the trio dominated the world championships from 1981 to 1993 and won seven world titles, three further world championship medals and the Olympic gold medals in 1984 and 1988. At the Olympic Games in 1992 and at the World Championships in 1993, the three lost to the British brothers Jonathan Searle and Gregory Searle with their helmsman Garry Herbert . Abbagnale started in 1995 for the last time at the World Championships in the Italian eighth and finished 7th.

In addition to Giuseppe and Carmine Abbagnale, the youngest brother Agostino Abbagnale was also a successful rower who even won three Olympic gold medals. While the two older brothers always sat in the belt boat , Agostino was successful in the scull . In 2013, Giuseppe's son Vincenzo Abbagnale won his first world title in a two-man team.

Association presidency

In 2012 Abbagnale was elected President of the Italian rowing association “Federazione Italiana Canottaggio”. In his role as association president, he also had to pronounce a doping ban against his son Vincenzo.

Awards

• 1981, 1984, 1988, 1991: World Team of the Year for the Gazzetta dello Sport (together with Carmine Abbagnale and Giuseppe Di Capua )

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Giuseppe Abbagnale è il nuovo Presidente FIC. In: www.canottaggio.org. FIC, November 18, 2012, accessed July 1, 2016 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Abbagnale bans son for doping. In: www.spox.com. February 11, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 .