Gaetano Iannuzzi | |
National Team: | Italy |
Birth Date: | 5 March 1972 |
Birth Place: | Portici, Italy |
Olympics: | 2 |
Height: | 1.59 m |
Weight: | 50 kg |
Retired: | 2009 (rowing) |
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Disability Class: | PR3 |
Club: | Canottieri Aniene |
Gaetano Iannuzzi (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian rowing coach and former coxswain who later participated as a coxswain in the paralympic sports, also winning an international medal in the competitions reserved for paralympic athletes.[1]
After finished his sports career as an athlete, Iannuzzi had become a rowing coach.[2] He became a paralympic athlete in 2017 following a serious road accident had in 1998, however continued to compete with not disabled athletes until 2009.[3]
He has had a long career, and last competed in 2017, when he won bronze at the 2017 Championships in Sarasota, Florida in PR3 mixed coxed four, an adaptive rowing class.[4] At young level he won a gold medal at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna with the lightweight men's eight.[5]
From 1999 to 2009 Iannuzzi participated in sixteen editions of World Rowing Championships.[6]
Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Time | ||
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1991 | World Championships | Vienna | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Lightweight Eight | 6:13.21 | |
1993 | World Championships | Račice | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:41.53 | ||
1994 | World Championships | Indianapolis | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:34.63 | ||
1995 | World Championships | Tampere | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:58.77 | ||
1997 | World Championships | Aiguebelette-le-Lac | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Coxed Four | 6:05.98 | |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney | 4th | Eight | 5:35.37 | ||
2004 | Olympic Games | Athens | 7th | Eight | 5:46.36 | ||
2005 | World Championships | Kaizu | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Eight | 5:24.01 | |
2006 | World Championships | Eton | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Eight | 5:23.29 |