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Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 January 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | K1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcello Beda (born 10 January 1995) is an Italian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2012. [1] [2]
He won a silver medal in the K1 event at the 2021 World Championships in Bratislava.
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