Rossano Galtarossa
Rossano Galtarossa (born July 6, 1972 in Padua ) is an Italian rower who won four medals in five Olympic competitions.
Life
Galtarossa was already successful in the junior area. In 1989 he won silver in single at the Junior World Championships , in 1990 he won double sculls . In 1992 he received the Olympic bronze medal in a double foursome. From 1994 to 1998, the Italian double foursome with Galtarossa won the world title four times in a row, but only finished fourth at the 1996 Olympic Games. At the 1999 World Cup, the boat missed the final and then won the B run. The following year Galtarossa achieved his greatest success with the Olympic victory in Sydney. In the following years, Galtarossa was mostly in double sculls, in this boat class he won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. After a break of two years, Galtarossa returned to rowing in 2007 and immediately won the Italian championship in single. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Galtarossa rowed the silver medal in a double foursome.
In total, Rossano Galtarossa won 14 Italian championship titles. In 2008, after his fourth Olympic medal, Rossano Galtarossa was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .
successes
Olympic games
- 1992 : Bronze in a quadruple with Filippo Soffici , Rossano Galtarossa, Gianluca Farina , Alessandro Corona
- 1996 : 4th place in the four-four with Massimo Paradiso , Alessio Sartori , Rossano Galtarossa, Alessandro Corona
- 2000 : Gold in the double fours with Simone Raineri , Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori, Agostino Abbagnale
- 2004 : Bronze in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
- 2008 : Silver in the quad scull with Luca Agamennoni , Rossano Galtarossa, Simone Raineri, Simone Venier
World championships
- 1993: Bronze in the quad scull with Gianluca Farina , Massimo Paradiso , Rossano Galtarossa, Alessandro Corona
- 1994: Gold in quadruples with Massimo Paradiso, Alessio Sartori , Rossano Galtarossa, Alessandro Corona
- 1995: Gold in quadruples with Massimo Paradiso, Alessandro Corona, Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
- 1997: Gold in the quadruple with Giovanni Calabrese , Rossano Galtarossa, Agostino Abbagnale , Alessandro Corona
- 1998: Gold in the quad scull with Alessio Sartori, Rossano Galtarossa, Agostino Abbagnale, Alessandro Corona
- 1999: 7th place in the double quad
- 2001: Bronze in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
- 2002: Bronze in quadruples with Mattia Righetti , Marco Ragazzi , Rossano Galtarossa, Simone Raineri
- 2003: Silver in a double scull with Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori
Web links
- Rossano Galtarossa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World championships in double sculls
- World Championships in quadruples
1976: Güldenpfennig , Reiche , Bußert , Wolfgramm (GDR) | 1980: Dundr , Bunk , Heppner , Winter (GDR) | 1984: Hedderich , Hörmann , Wiedenmann , Dürsch (GER) | 1988: Abbagnale , Tizzano , Farina , Poli (ITA) | 1992: Willms , Hajek , Steinbach , Volkert (GER) | 1996: Steiner , Volkert , Hajek , Willms (GER) | 2000: Abbagnale , Sartori , Galtarossa , Raineri (ITA) | 2004: Spinjow , Kravtsov , Swirin , Fedorovtsev (RUS) | 2008: Jeliński , Kolbowicz , Korol , Wasielewski (POL) | 2012: Schulze , Wende , Schoof , Grohmann (GER) | 2016: Schulze , Wende , Schoof , Gruhne (GER)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galtarossa, Rossano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Olympic champion in rowing |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Padua |