Giuseppe Di Capua

Giuseppe Di Capua
Personal information
Nationality Italy
Born (1958-03-15) 15 March 1958
Salerno
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)

Giuseppe Di Capua (born March 15, 1958) is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.[1]

Di Capua was born in Salerno. He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as cox, with Giuseppe Abbagnale and Carmine Abbagnale, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,[2] and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[3] The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.[4] In 2013 he won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea, coxing the Italian LTA mixed coxed four, and in 2014 a bronze in the same event at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

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