Sergio Ferrero
Sergio Ferrero di Muresanu (born July 30, 1942 in Bucharest , Romania ) is an Italian artist and extreme athlete .
Life
Ferrero was born the son of an Italian and a Romanian. A few months after his birth, the family moved to Rome , where he later studied political science. He was first known to the public as a playboy in Italy in the 1970s.
In 1982 he crossed the Atlantic Ocean by windsurfing in 24 days ; this achievement earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . In 1996 he became world champion in the ultra-distance triathlon in Monterrey , Mexico (57 km swimming, 2700 km bicycle, 633 km running in 23 days). His "crossing" of the Sahara desert with a kite and a mountain board (according to his own account) is received controversially, as it began in Nouakchott halfway north-south of the Sahara and there is no verifiable documentation. Ferrero is considered to be the inventor of the quadrathlon , which adds kayaking to the disciplines of triathlon.
Sergio Ferrero is the author of two books and has also emerged as a painter . His works are today u. a. exhibited in the Italian gallery Centro Culturale Europeo , which he founded in Rome in 1973 .
Today he lives in Ibiza , Spain .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achille Mezzadri: I segreti della “ragazza” che ha fatto tremare gli intoccabili dell'Italia '70 on arcoiris.tv (Italian).
- ↑ http://fanatico.sergioferrero.com/fr/transahara ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Georg Neumann, Arndt Pfützner, Kuno Hottenrott: The big book of the triathlon. Aachen, Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2010, p. 26
- ↑ Entry about Ferrero at Centro Culturale Europeo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://centroculturaleeuropeo.net/artists.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Ferrero, Sergio |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muresanu, Sergio Ferrero di |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian artist and extreme athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest , Romania |