Mario Palmisano

Mario Palmisano (born May 28, 1978 in Naples ) is a former Italian rower . At world championships he rowed four medals, one gold and three silver.

Athletic career

The 1.89 m tall Mario Palmisano took twelfth place in the 1994 Junior World Championships with eighth , in 1995 he reached sixth place in four with helmsman and in 1996 he won silver in two with helmsman . In 1997 he entered the Nations Cup , the forerunner competition of the U23 World Championships, in two without a helmsman and received silver. In the same year he also rowed in the adult class at the 1997 World Championships . In the line-up of Giuliano De Stabile , Rosario Gioia , Francesco Mattei , Mario Palmisano and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi , the four-man with helmsman won the silver medal behind the French boat. At the 1998 World Championships in Cologne Palmisano finished fifth with the Italian eighth and at the 1999 World Championships the eighth came in sixth. The following year, the Italian eighth finished half a second behind the third-placed Croatians in fourth place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The crew of the 2000 Olympic eight consisted of Gioacchino Cascone , Franco Berra , Mario Palmisano, Marco Penna , Valerio Pinton , Raffaello Leonardo , Alessandro Corona , Luca Ghezzi and Gaetano Iannuzzi.

In 2001 Mario Palmisano competed at the World Championships in Lucerne together with Gioacchino Cascone, Pasquale Panzarino and Raffaello Leonardo in a four without a helmsman and reached sixth place. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville , Palmisano rowed back in eighth place in Italy and finished fifth. In 2003 at the World Championships in Milan , the eighth came in seventh place. In 2004 Palmisano was not among the eighth, who finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Athens. Palmisano participated together with Mattia Trombetta and helmsman Luigi Langobardi in the world championships in 2004 in the non-Olympic boat classes and won the title in two with helmsman.

In 2005 Palmisano returned to eighth. The Italian large boat with Lorenzo Carboncini , Niccolò Mornati , Pierpaolo Frattini , Valerio Pinton, Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale , Raffaello Leonardo, Carlo Mornati and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu, behind the US boat and ahead of the Germans , after the Italians had won once in the World Cup season and twice finished second behind the Germany eighth . In 2006 at the World Championships in Eton, the Germans won ahead of the Italians with Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati, Luca Agamennoni , Alessio Sartori , Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale, Pierpaolo Frattini, Carlo Mornati and Gaetano Iannuzzi and the boat from the United States. After the Italian eighth clearly missed the Olympic qualification in 2007, Palmisano only took part in one World Cup regatta in 2008 and finished ninth in eighth in Munich.

In 2010 Palmisano returned to the eighth, but could no longer prevail in this boat. At the end of his career he won the silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in a pair with Steuermann, together with Simone Ponti and Andrea Lenzi .

Web links

• Mario Palmisano in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Mario Palmisano at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )