Serena Lo Bue

Serena Lo Bue
nation	Italy
birthday	4th August 1995
place of birth	Palermo ,  Italy
size	168 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
status	not active
Medal table
World Cup medal 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 World Cup medal 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medal 2 × 0 × 2 ×
World championships gold 2018 Plovdiv LW2-  U23 world championships silver 2014 Varese LW4x  Junior World Championships gold 2011 Eton W2- gold 2012 Plovdiv W2- bronze 2012 Plovdiv W8 + bronze 2013 Trakai W8 +
Last change: March 24, 2020

Serena Lo Bue (born August 4, 1995 in Palermo ) is an Italian rower . In 2018 she and her older sister Giorgia won the gold medal in the lightweight two-man without helmsman at the World Rowing Championships .

Career

She competed for the first time in 2011 together with her older sister Giorgia in a pair without a helmsman at the Junior World Championships 2011 in the British town of Eton . After the two had already won their preliminary run, they won the final and thus the gold medal in front of the boats from Germany and Greece. The two were able to defend this gold medal at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Plovdiv the following year . In the final they won in front of the boats from the USA and Greece. In addition, Serena Lo Bue and her sister also belonged to the Italian eighth and this was able to secure the bronze medal in the final behind the Romanian and the US American boat.

In 2013, Serena Lo Bue started without her sister at the Junior Rowing World Championships in the Lithuanian town of Trakai and was among the Italian eighth. After the Italian eighth qualified for the final via the repechage, the crew won the bronze medal behind the boats in Romania and Germany. In 2014 Serena belonged to Valentina Rodini , Greta Masserano and Giorgia Lo Bue in the lightweight quadruple scull that started at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Varese . After they won the prelim, they won silver in the final behind the German boat and ahead of the Swiss boat.

After 2015 and 2016 not in both U23 World Rowing Championships was allowed to start, she went in 2017 together with Caterna di Fonzo at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv in pairs without coxswain at the start and only qualified for the B- Finals, in which they took fourth place. In the end, they came in tenth place. In 2018, Serena Lo Bue started at the rowing world championships for the first time and formed the Italian lightweight two-man with her older sister Giorgia without a helmsman. In addition to them, only the American boat consisting of Jennifer Sager and Jillian Zieff competed in this class . The two sisters won the final run with a lead of around 15 seconds and secured the gold medal.

Web links

• Serena Lo Bue at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information sheet Serena Lo Bue on canottaggioservice.canottaggio.net, accessed on March 24, 2020