Giuseppe Abbagnale

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Giuseppe Abbagnale (born 24 July 1959 in Pompei) is the current president of the Italian Rowing Federation 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.

Biography

He received a gold medal in coxed pair with Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) and his younger brother Carmine, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.

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