Guglielmo Del Bimbo

Guglielmo Del Bimbo (born October 20, 1903 in Livorno , † November 3, 1973 ) was an Italian rower.

At the European Rowing Championships in 1929, the Italian eighth defended the title from 1927, but the crew of the boat was newly composed with Vittorio Cioni , Enrico Garzelli , Guglielmo Del Bimbo, Roberto Vestrini , Dino Barsotti , Eugenio Nenci , Mario Balleri , Renato Barbieri and helmsman Cesare Milani . In 1930 the boat with the same crew won the silver medal behind the boat from the United States, in 1931 the eighth with Renato Bracci for Vestrini again took second place, this time behind the French.

At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the eighth competed with Cioni, Balleri, Bracci, Barsotti, Vestrini, Del Bimbo, Garzelli, Barbieri and Milani and received the silver medal behind the US boat. In 1933 the boat with Ottorino Godini and Dante Secchi won silver for Vestrini and Cioni behind the Hungarian eighth.

After Italy had won bronze at the European Championships in 1934 with a completely different crew and there was no medal for Italy in 1935, some of the 1932 crew returned to eight for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin-Grünau and Guglielmo Del Bimbo was the one new batsman. In the line-up of Guglielmo Del Bimbo, Dino Barsotti, Ottorino Quaglierini , Oreste Grossi , Enzo Bartolini , Mario Checcacci , Dante Secchi, Enrico Garzelli and Cesare Milani, the boat took second place behind last year's European champion Hungary. While the boats from the USA, Hungary and Switzerland qualified directly for the finals as preliminary winners, the boats from Germany, Italy and the UK reached the finals as winners of the hope runs. There the favored US boat initially pulled away, in the second section of the route Italians and Germans came up and the three boats reached the destination within a second, the Americans won gold ahead of the Italians and the Germans.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Guglielmo Del Bimbo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in eighth