Niccolò Mornati

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The Italian twos in 2012, Mornati sits on the left

Niccolò Mornati (born October 28, 1980 in Lecco ) is a former Italian rower who won five world championship medals.

Athletic career

The 1.97 m tall Mornati was fifth at the U23 World Championships in 1999 with the four-man with helmsman , and in 2002 he won the title in this boat class. He made his debut at World Championships in the adult class in 2001 with an eleventh place in eighth . At the 2002 World Championships , he won the silver medal in the four without a helmsman . At the 2004 Olympic Games , the Italian eighth won the B-final with Niccolò Mornati and finished seventh in the overall standings.

From 2005 to 2007 Mornati won three silver medals at world championships, at the 2008 Olympic Games Mornati only achieved eleventh place in the four without a helmsman. From 2010 Mornati rowed in two without a helmsman with Lorenzo Carboncini , with whom he won two silver medals at European championships and one bronze medal at the 2011 world championships. In what was initially Niccolò Mornati's last international appearance, the two finished fourth at the 2012 Olympic Games .

In the 2015 season, Mornati started a comeback and initially rowed eighth at the Rowing World Cup . He was then paired with Vincenzo Capelli in a two-man without helmsman for the World Championships , where the two achieved fifth place and the Olympic qualification in the boat class for Italy. In the Olympic season, Mornati and Capelli prepared for the games in Rio and started successfully at the World Cup. However, Mornati was subjected to a doping control on April 6 and tested positive for the masking agent anastrozole . He was initially banned from active sport in July 2016 for four years until 2020, after which the ban was reduced to two years.

International final rankings

(OS = Olympic Games; WM = World Championships; EM = European Championships)

  • World Cup 2002 : 3rd place with the four without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Raffaello Leonardo , Lorenzo Carboncini , Carlo Mornati )
  • World Cup 2003 : 5th place with the four without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Raffaello Leonardo, Lorenzo Carboncini, Carlo Mornati)
  • World Cup 2005 : 2nd place with eighth place (Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati, Pierpaolo Frattini , Valerio Pinton , Mario Palmisano , Dario Dentale , Raffaello Leonardo, Carlo Mornati and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi )
  • World Cup 2006 : 2nd place with eighth place (Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati, Luca Agamennoni , Alessio Sartori , Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale, Pierpaolo Frattini, Carlo Mornati and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi)
  • World Cup 2007 : 2nd place with the four without a helmsman (Carlo Mornati, Alessio Sartori, Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini)
  • WM 2009 : 6th place with the eighth ( Romano Battisti , Marco Resemini , Raffaello Leonardo, Pierpaolo Frattini, Dario Dentale, Francesco Fossi , Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi)
  • EM 2009 : 5th place with eighth place (Romano Battisti, Marco Resemini, Raffaello Leonardo, Francesco Fossi, Dario Dentale, Pierpaolo Frattini, Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini and helmsman Gaetano Iannuzzi)
  • EM 2010 : 2nd place with the two without a helmsman (Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati)
  • World Cup 2010 : 4th place with the two without a helmsman (Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolò Mornati)
  • World Cup 2011 : 3rd place with the two without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini)
  • EM 2011 : 2nd place with the two without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini)
  • OS 2012 : 4th place with the two without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Lorenzo Carboncini)
  • World Cup 2015 : 5th place with the two without a helmsman (Niccolò Mornati, Vincenzo Capelli )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valerio Piccioni: Canottaggio, annuncio di Malagò "niccolò mornati positivo all'antidoping". In: www.gazzetta.it. La Gazzetta dello Sport , April 29, 2016, accessed July 18, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ Italian Niccolo Mornati gets four-year doping ban, misses Rio Olympics. In: indianexpress.com. Reuters / The Indian Express, July 13, 2016, accessed July 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Doping: accidentally ingesting the mother's drug. In: www.derstandard.de. Der Standard , August 7, 2017, accessed August 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mornati, Niccolò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lecco