Valerio Perentin

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Valerio Perentin (born July 12, 1909 in Izola , † January 7, 1998 in Naples ) was an Italian rower and Olympic champion.

Perentin rowed for SN Pullino in his hometown, which fell from Cisleithanien to Italy in 1918 . At the Olympic Games in 1928 , the Italian four-man with helmsman in the line-up of Valerio Perentin, Giliante D'Este , Nicolò Vittori , Giovanni Delise and helmsman Renato Petronio won the gold medal with a 15 second lead over the boat from Switzerland. In 1929 the Italians won the European Championships against the Danish boat in the same line-up, in 1930 the Danes won ahead of Francesco Chicco , Renato Felluga , Nicolo Vittori, Valerio Perentin and Renato Petronio.

At the European Championships in 1932 Valerio Perentin, Francesco Chicco, Nicolo Vittori, Giovanni Delise and Renato Petronio won. Another Italian crew (from Koper) started at the Olympic Games in 1932 and won the silver medal behind the German boat. In 1933 and 1934 the crew with Perentin, Chicco, Vittori and Petronio won the European Championships, while Umberto Vittori was on board for Delise in 1933 . In 1935, at the European Championships in Berlin , the Germans competed for the first time since the First World War and won in the four with a helmsman ahead of the French and the Italian four with Perentin, D'Este, the Vittori brothers and helmsman Petronio. At the Olympic Games in 1936, the Germans won ahead of the Swiss and French. The Italian four-man with the same line-up as in 1935, after a preliminary defeat against the Swiss in the intermediate heat, only reached third place behind Hungary and Poland, only the winners of the preliminary heats and the winners of the intermediate heats reached the final.

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SURNAME Perentin, Valerio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Izola
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1998
Place of death Naples