Daniele Scarpa
Daniele Scarpa (born 3 January 1964) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events.
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 January 1964 Venice, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Fiamme Oro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1985).
He quit the national team in 1997 to what he claimed was widespread doping. Scarpa also was elected to the local government as a member of the Greens Party. Scarpa married the paralympian archer Sandra Truccolo in 2007 and they offer canoeing courses.[1]
See also
References
- Daniel Scarpa biography, besport.org, retrieved 27 September 2014
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- RAI Profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daniele Scarpa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 476.
External links
- Daniele Scarpa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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