Carmine Abbagnale
Italian rower (born 1962)
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Carmine Abbagnale (born 5 January 1962)[1] is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.
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| Born | 5 January 1962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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The Abbagnale brothers are the older brothers of the three-time Olympic champion Agostino.[2]
Biography
Abbagnale received a gold medal in coxed pairs, with Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) and his older brother Giuseppe, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,[3] and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[4] The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.[5]
