Martino Goretti

Martino Goretti (2013)

Martino Goretti (* 27. September 1985 in Lecco ) is an Italian lightweight - rowers . He won four world and two European championships.

Career

The 1.86 m tall Goretti was 2003 junior world champion in the four-man without a helmsman . In 2004 he won the silver medal in the lightweight four without a helmsman at the U23 World Championships , followed by a bronze medal in 2005. At the 2005 World Championships in the adult class, Goretti won the title with the Italian lightweight eighth . In 2006 he won with the lightweight four at the U23 World Championships and with the eighth at the World Championships in Eton . In 2007 he was fifth at the U23 World Championships with the lightweight four-man.

After a break, Goretti returned to the lightweight eight in 2009 and won his third world title at the World Championships in Poznan . In 2010 he switched to the lightweight foursome, which reached fourth place at the European Championships in the line-up of Jiri Vlcek , Daniele Danesin , Andrea Caianello and Martino Goretti . At the World Championships , the Italians took sixth place. In 2011 Danesin, Caianello, Marcello Miani and Goretti won the silver medal behind the Australians at the World Championships . At the end of the season, the Italians won the 2011 European Championships . In 2012 the four-man competed in the same line-up, but could not build on the successes of the previous year. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the boat took twelfth place. At the 2012 World Championships in the non-Olympic boat classes, Caianello and Goretti competed with the lightweight eighth and won silver behind the Germans. In September 2012 the European Championships 2012 took place in Varese , the newly composed lightweight foursome with Luca De Maria , Martino Goretti, Petru Zaharia and Armando Dell'Aquila won the title in front of a home crowd.

At the European Championships in 2013 , the Italian lightweight four-man competed with Elia Luini , Martino Goretti, Livio La Padula and Armando Dell'Aquila and reached fourth place. For the world championships , Luini and Goretti switched to the lightweight two-man without a helmsman and won silver behind the Swiss boat. In 2014 Goretti rowed in the lightweight foursome and finished tenth at the European Championships and twelfth place at the World Championships . At the 2015 World Championships , Martino Goretti, Stefano Oppo , Livio La Padula and Alberto Di Seyssel rowed to sixth place and thus qualified for the Olympic Games. At the Olympic regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Goretti, La Padula, Oppo and Pietro Ruta took fourth place, two and a half seconds behind bronze.

In 2017 Matteo Pinca , Martino Goretti, Piero Sfiligoi and Catello Amarante won the silver medal behind the Russians in the lightweight foursome. Afterwards Goretti joined the Skull rowing and reached together with Matteo Mulas , Catello Amarante and Andrea Micheletti in the World Championships in 2017 to fourth place in the lightweight quadruple sculls . In 2018 Martino Goretti started in the lightweight single . At the European Championships he won silver behind the Swiss Michael Schmid . A month and a half later, he finished seventh at the World Championships . At the European Championships in 2019 , the Hungarian Péter Galambos won ahead of the Polish Artur Mikołajczewski , Goretti received bronze. At the 2019 World Championships , Goretti won ahead of Galambos.

Web links

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