Leandro Salvagno

Leandro Salvagno Rattaro (born March 3, 1984 in Colonia ) is a Uruguayan rower .

The 1.89 meter tall Salvagno, for whom a competition weight of 83 kg is recorded, began rowing in 1998 with the Carmelo Rowing Club . At the beginning of 2012, the newspaper El Observador reported that he has been playing for Spanish teams for six seasons and was at the time in the ranks of the Astilleros club . 2001 Salvagno was Uruguayan champion in the men's singles. The first significant successes were winning the silver medal in the open four and that of the bronze medal in the two at the South American Games in 2002 . In that year he was also Uruguayan champion in both men and juniors. At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in 2003 , Salvagno started in a foursome alongside Rodolfo Collazo , Rúben Scarpatti and Oscar Medina and rowed the silver medal. This was followed in 2004 by winning the gold medal in the two-man competition at the South American Championships in Chile . Salvagno took the Uruguayan team at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and four years later at the games in Beijing in part. In his first appearance in the Olympic competition, he took 20th place in the single competition in Athens. In the same discipline he improved in the competitions of the 2008 Olympic Games by one place and rowed to 19th place. In the phase between these most important events, he won the bronze medal in two at the South American Championships in São Paulo in 2005 and silver in one and bronze in two and four at the 2006 South American Games . Salvagno was also part of the Uruguayan squad at the 2011 Pan American Games .

Web links

• Leandro Salvagno in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El duelo olímpico. (No longer available online.) El Observador , February 24, 2012, formerly the original ; Retrieved August 20, 2012 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ^ Campeones Nacionales 2001. La República , March 11, 2002, accessed August 11, 2013 (Spanish). 
3. ↑ Results of the Uruguayan athletes. In: www.cou.org.uy. COU, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved March 13, 2014 (Spanish). 
4. ^ Lo mejor del deporte uruguayo. El País , March 27, 2003, accessed August 22, 2012 (Spanish).