Mario Balleri

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Mario Balleri (born September 17, 1902 in Livorno ; † March 9, 1962 there ) was an Italian rower.

Athletic career

At the European Championships in 1929 , the Italian eighth defended the title from 1927, but the crew of the boat was reassembled 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, eighth competed with Cioni, Balleri, Bracci, Barsotti, Vestrini, Del Bimbo, Garzelli, Barbieri and Milani. After the preliminary victory over the British, the Italians were also in the lead in the final for a long time, reaching the goal two tenths of a second behind the US eighth. After silver at the European Championships in 1930 and 1931 and the Olympic Games in 1932, Barbieri again won European Championship silver with the Italian eighth in 1933 behind the Hungarian eighth, compared to 1932 Ottorino Godini and Dante Secchi rowed for Vestrini and Cioni.

Balleri was Italian champion from 1929 to 1933 with the eighth of the Unione Canottieri Livornesi .

literature

  • Karl Lennartz , Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 252-255

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personal data
SURNAME Balleri, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1962
Place of death Livorno