Giuseppe Di Capua

Giuseppe Di Capua
Personal information
Nationality Italy
Born (1958-03-15) 15 March 1958
Salerno, Italy
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Men's rowing
Olympic Games
1984 Los AngelesCoxed pair
1988 SeoulCoxed pair
1992 BarcelonaCoxed pair

Giuseppe "Peppiniello" Di Capua (born 15 March 1958) is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.[1]

Di Capua was born in Salerno. He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as cox, with Giuseppe Abbagnale and Carmine Abbagnale, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,[2] and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[3] The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.[4] In 2013 he won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea, coxing the Italian LTA mixed coxed four, and in 2014 a bronze in the same event at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

References

  1. ↑ "Giuseppe Di Capua Biography and Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Rowing" Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved on 13 May 2008)
  3. ↑ "1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Rowing" Archived 31 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved on 13 May 2008)
  4. ↑ "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Rowing" Archived 23 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved on 13 May 2008)


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