Carlo Mornati

Carlo Leonardo Mornati, born on 16 March 1972 in Lecco, is a former Italian rower who later became a sports administrator. He competed at four consecutive Olympic Games from 1996 to 2008, mainly in the coxless four, and won the silver medal in that event at Sydney in 2000, finishing just 38 hundredths of a second behind the British crew led by Steven Redgrave. At the World Championships he won eight coxless four medals, including gold at Indianapolis in 1994 and Tampere in 1995. He rowed for CC Aniene in Rome, studied law, and was later Italy head of delegation at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and, from 2018, Secretary-General of the Italian Olympic Committee.