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
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in
1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events.
Biography
Scarpa also won five medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). The World Cham ...
with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both
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), two silvers (K-2 1000 m:
1993
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,
1994
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), and a bronze (K-2 10000 m:
1985
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).
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
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Archery at the ...
in 2007 and they offer canoeing courses.
Daniel Scarpa biography
besport.org, retrieved 27 September 2014
See also
* List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's kayak
* List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men)
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in canoeing.
Current program Slalom C-1
K-1
Kayak cross
Sprint C-1 1000 metres
C-2 500 metres
K-1 1000 metres
K-2 500 metres
K-4 500 metres
Discontinued events Slalom C-2
...
References
*
RAI Profile
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* 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.
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1964 births
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Italian male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Sportspeople from Venice
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Canoeists of Fiamme Oro
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
20th-century Italian people