Raffaello Leonardo

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Raffaello Leonardo (born May 1, 1973 in Naples ) is a former Italian rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 2004. At world championships he rowed four medals, including two gold medals.

Athletic career

The 1.90 m tall Raffaello Leonardo won silver in the four-man with helmsman at the Junior World Championships in 1990, and in 1991 he won silver in the double- four . In 1992 he competed in the Olympic Games in Barcelona with the Italian eighth . The Italians took ninth place out of 14 participating boats.

In 1993, Leonardo entered the world championships on the Račice rowing channel in a four-man without a helmsman . Riccardo Dei Rossi , Carmine La Mura , Raffaello Leonardo and Valter Molea took seventh place in the overall standings as the winners of the B final. In 1994 Carlo Mornati joined La Mura as a batsman . At the World Championships in Indianapolis , the Italian four-man won the title ahead of the French and the British. In 1995 in Tampere , the four Italians defended the title from the British and the Poles. At the 1996 Olympics the Australians won ahead of the French and the British, the four Italians took sixth place.

At the 1997 World Championships , Valter Molea, Riccardo Dei Rossi, Raffaello Leonardo and Marco Penna took fifth place. After a year without participation in the World Cup, Leonardo returned in 1999 as a member of the Italian eighth team. At the World Championships in St. Catharines , the eighth finished 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.

In 2001 Raffaello Leonardo competed at the World Championships in Lucerne together with Gioacchino Cascone , Pasquale Panzarino and Mario Palmisano in a four without a helmsman and reached sixth place. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville , only Leonardo from the previous four was left. Together with Niccolò Mornati , Lorenzo Carboncini and Carlo Mornati, he won the bronze medal behind the Germans and the British. In the same line-up, the Italian foursome reached fifth place at the 2003 World Championships in Milan. Before the Olympic season, the foursome was replaced again. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Italian boat with Lorenzo Porzio , Dario Dentale , Luca Agamennoni and Raffaello Leonardo won the bronze medal behind the boats from the UK and Canada.

In 2005, Leonardo returned to eighth. The large Italian 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 Valerio Massimo , Aldo Tramontano , Valerio Pinton and Raffaello Leonardo rowed to twelfth place in the foursome. In 2007, Leonardo returned to eighth, but with a 15th place at the World Championships in Munich, he could not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Leonardo and Giuseppe De Vita competed in two without a helmsman , they missed the A-final and in the B-final Leonardo and Dario Dentale took fifth place, thus eleventh place in the overall standings. In 2009 Leonardo and Dentale returned to eighth place and finished sixth at the World Championships and fifth at the European Championships . In 2010, at the end of his career, Raffaello Leonardo finished sixth in eighth place at the European Championships .

Raffaello Leonardo rowed for Fiamme Gialle , the sports promotion group of the Guardia di Finanza , among others . In Naples he was a member of the Posillipo Napoli rowing club . In 2004 he was named a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 506
  2. ↑ Entry at quirinale.it (accessed January 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Leonardo, Raffaello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 1st 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples