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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 December 1962 Casalmaggiore, Italy [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Gianluca Farina (born 15 December 1962) is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.
He received a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Agostino Abbagnale, Davide Tizzano, and Piero Poli. [2]
He received a bronze medal in quadruple sculls at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. [3]
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