Giuseppe Di Capua Explained

Giuseppe Di Capua
Birth Date:15 March 1958
Birth Place:Salerno, Italy
Height:1.55 m
Weight:53 kg

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

Biography

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.

Notes and References

  1. Giuseppe Di Capua . https://web.archive.org/web/20121112072059/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/giuseppe-di-capua-1.html . 12 November 2012 . 28 October 2012.
  2. Web site: 1984 Summer Olympics  - Los Angeles, United States  - Rowing . databaseOlympics.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110517013442/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=21&sp=ROW . 17 May 2011 . 13 May 2008.
  3. Web site: 1988 Summer Olympics  - Seoul, South Korea  - Rowing . databaseOlympics.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080531095250/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=22&sp=ROW . 31 May 2008 . 13 May 2008.
  4. Web site: 1992 Summer Olympics  - Barcelona, Spain  - Rowing . databaseOlympics.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080823075020/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=23&sp=ROW . 23 August 2008 . 13 May 2008.

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