Maximilian Benassi is an Italian

sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who has competed since the late 2000s. He won the bronze medal in the K-1 5000 m event at the

2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta. This was the third time that the Polish city hosted the championships, having done so previously in 1990 and 2001. Paracanoe (form ...

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

and another a year later in Szeged. Benassi is an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Gialle,

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Canoe'09.ca profile.
* * Italian male canoeists Living people Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Italy ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak 1986 births Canoeists of Fiamme Gialle 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-canoe-bio-stub