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

• Official website of Sergio Ferrero
• Official website of the Galerie Centro Culturale Europeo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achille Mezzadri: I segreti della “ragazza” che ha fatto tremare gli intoccabili dell'Italia '70 on arcoiris.tv (Italian).
2. ↑ 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.  
3. ↑ Georg Neumann, Arndt Pfützner, Kuno Hottenrott: The big book of the triathlon. Aachen, Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2010, p. 26
4. ↑ 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.  
5. ↑ 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.