Giancarlo Peris

Giancarlo Peris
Giancarlo Peris with the Olympic torch at the 1960 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born (1941-11-04) 4 November 1941
Civitavecchia, Italy
Sport
Country Italy Italy
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Cross country running

Giancarlo Peris (born 4 November 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.[1]

Biography

Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympic Games would be the winner of a junior Cross country running race. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer.[1] Peris was also a promising track athlete and few months before the opening of the Olympic games he competed for his country's national junior/youth team against Poland.

He later became a teacher of history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He also coached at a small athletics club.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Giancarlo Peris：From Rome 1960 to Beijing 2008". beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Ken Henry		 Final Olympic torchbearer
Rome 1960		 Succeeded by
Josl Rieder
Preceded by
Ron Clarke & Hans Wikne		 Final Summer Olympic torchbearer
Rome 1960		 Succeeded by
Yoshinori Sakai
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