Stefano Basalini

Stefano Basalini

Stefano Basalini (* 29. November 1977 in Borgomanero ) is a former Italian lightweight - rowers , who won from 1997 to 2011 nine World Championship medals, including seven gold medals.

Career

Basalini won at the U23 World Championships in 1996 silver in the lightweight quadruple sculls , 1997, he won by Marco Audisio in lightweight double sculls . At the 1997 World Championships, with no age limit , he won the Italian lightweight quadruple. In 1998 in Cologne he won the title in the lightweight single .

In 1999 Basalini switched to a belt boat , namely the lightweight two-seater without a helmsman, and won his fourth consecutive world title with Paolo Pittino . In 2000 Pittino and Basalini won the second regatta in the rowing World Cup in the lightweight double scull in front of the second Italian boat with Elia Luini and Leonardo Pettinari , in the third World Cup regatta Luini and Pettinari won, while Basalini and Pittino only finished fifth. The Italian federation then nominated Luini and Pettinari for the 2000 Olympic Games .

2001 Basalini returned to the lightweight single, at the World Championships in 2001 and 2002 he received the silver medal behind the Irish Sam Lynch . In 2003 Basalini won two World Cup regattas and also won the World Championships in Milan ; in Milan the Italians won a total of three gold medals, all in lightweight scull boats . At the 2004 World Championships , Basalini came fourth in the lightweight single. Basalini was also fourth at the 2005 World Championships in lightweight double sculls with Leonardo Pettinari.

It was not until 2008 that Basalini won a world championship medal again, at the world championships in the non-Olympic boat classes he won with the lightweight quadruple. In 2009 the Italian double foursome was able to defend this title . In 2010 the Italian double scull won the European championships with Basalini , and the boat took fourth place at the world championships . At the end of his career, Basalini won again the title in the lightweight quadruple scull in 2011 in Bled .

With a height of 1.87 meters, Basalini had a typical competition weight of around 72 kilograms for lightweights .

Web links

• Stefano Basalini at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )