Valter Molea

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Valter Molea (born July 8, 1966 in Naples ) is a former Italian rower who won an Olympic medal and four world championship medals.

Athletic career

The 1.92 m tall Valter Molea won the gold medal in the four without a helmsman at the U23 World Championships in 1987 . At the 1987 World Championships in the adult class, Molea finished fifth with the Italian four-man without a helmsman, as it did the following year at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. In the next few years, Molea only reached the B final at the season highlight, for example ninth place with the Italian eighth at the 1992 Olympic regatta .

At the World Championships in 1993 occupied Riccardo Dei Rossi , Carmine La Mura , Raffaello Leonardo and Valter Molea seventh place in the coxless four. In 1994 Carlo Mornati came on board as a batsman for La Mura and at the 1994 World Championships the Italian four-man won the title ahead of the French and the British. In 1995 in Tampere , the four Italians defended the title from the British and the Poles. At the 1996 Olympic Games, the Australians won ahead of the French and the British, the four Italians finished sixth.

At the 1997 World Championships , Valter Molea, Riccardo Dei Rossi, Raffaello Leonardo and Marco Penna took fifth place. 1998 moved Lorenzo Carboncini and Carlo Mornati for Leonardo and Penna in the foursome, who won the bronze medal at the world championships behind the British and French. In 1999 in St. Catharines the British won again, the Italians won the bronze medal behind the Australians. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the four Italians won the silver medal behind the British but ahead of the Australians.

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