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Giuseppe Abbagnale in 2013.
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Born | 24 July 1959 (1959-07-24) (age 64) Pompei, Naples, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giuseppe Abbagnale (born 24 July 1959 in Pompei)[1] is the current President of the Italian Rowing Federation[2] and former Italian rower who won multiple coxed pair world and Olympic championships with his brother Carmine Abbagnale.
The Abbagnale brothers are the older brothers of the three-time Olympic champion Agostino.[3]
He received a gold medal in coxed pair with Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) and his younger brother Carmine, at the 1984 Summer OlympicsinLos Angeles,[4] and again at the 1988 Summer OlympicsinSeoul.[5] The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer OlympicsinBarcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.[6]
The Italian Rowing Federation has a new president. He is Giuseppe Abbagnale, the three-time Olympic medallist and from Italy's most famed rowing family of Carmine, Agostino and Giuseppe Abbagnale.
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Preceded by | ![]() 1992 Barcelona |
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Thomas Keller Medal recipients
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See also: Thomas Keller |