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

Biography

Di Capua was born in

Salerno Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...

. He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as cox, with

Giuseppe Abbagnale 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 ...

and

Carmine Abbagnale Carmine Abbagnale (born 5 January 1962 in Pompei) is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion. The Abbagnale brothers are the older brothers of the three-time Olympic champion Agostino. Biography Abbagnale received a gold medal in c ...

, at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

in Los Angeles,"1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Rowing"
(Retrieved on 13 May 2008) and again at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

in Seoul."1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Rowing"
(Retrieved on 13 May 2008) The crew won silver medals at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and

Jonny Searle Jonathan "Jonny" William C. Searle (born 8 May 1969) is a British rower and business man. Along with his brother Gregory, and coxswain Garry Herbert, Searle won the gold medal in the coxed pair event at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Early ...

."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Rowing"
(Retrieved on 13 May 2008) 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.

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* 1958 births Living people Italian male rowers Olympic rowers of Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Coxswains (rowing) People from Salerno Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Italy World Rowing Championships medalists for Italy Sportspeople from the Province of Salerno 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub