Giuseppe Abbagnale

Giuseppe Abbagnale is an Italian former rower, born on 24 July 1959, who became one of the most successful coxed pair oarsmen in the history of the sport. With his younger brother Carmine and the coxswain Giuseppe Di Capua he won the Olympic gold medal in the coxed pair at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and the crew took the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind the British brothers Greg and Jonny Searle. According to his Wikipedia biography he also won multiple coxed pair world championships, and he is the current president of the Italian Rowing Federation. He is the older brother of the three-time Olympic champion Agostino Abbagnale.