Internat. Championships - 1991

This crew dominated the M2+ event between 1981

and 1991 by winning the gold medal at two Olympic

Games and seven World Rowing Championships:

WRC Munich 1981, WRC Lucerne 1982, Olympic

Games Los Angeles 1984, WRC Hazewinkel 1985,

WRC Copenhagen 1987, Olympic Games Seoul 1988,

WRC Bled 1989, WRC Tasmania 1990 and WRC Vienna

1991. In the M2+ final of the Olympic Games Barcelona

1992 the Abbagnale brothers lost against the Searle 

brothers of Great Britain in an epic battle and won the

silver medal. 

Giuseppe Abbagnale was elected president of the Italian

Rowing Federation in 2012.

In order to test the regatta course and its staff,  the Junior World

Rowing Championships are staged at the same venue of the

Olympic regatta coming in the next year. Therefore Banyoles 1991

was the rehearsal for the Olympic regatta 1992.

Peter Gorny (GDR) - M2+ gold medal winner ERC Amsterdam 1964 -

had been chosen as team manager for the German team after the

re-union of East and West Germany.

Gold medal WRC Bled 1989

Bronze medal WRC Lake Barrinton 1990

Silver medal WRC Vienna 1991

Gold medal WRC Munich 1981

Gold medal WRC Lucerne 1982

Gold medal OG Los Angeles 1984

Gold medal WRC Hazewinkel 1985

Gold medal WRC Copenhagen 1987

Gold medal OG Seoul 1988

Gold medal WRC Bled 1989

Gold medal WRC Lake Barrington 1990

Gold medal WRC Vienna 1991

Silver medal OG Barcelona 1992