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| National team | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 March 1972 Portici, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | PR3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Canottieri Aniene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2009 (rowing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gaetano Iannuzzi (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian rowing coach and former coxswain who later participated as a coxswain in the paralympic sports, also winning an international medal in the competitions reserved for paralympic athletes. [1]
After finished his sports career as an athlete, Iannuzzi had become a rowing coach. [2] He became a paralympic athlete in 2017 following a serious road accident had in 1998, however continued to compete with not disabled athletes until 2009. [3]
He has had a long career, and last competed in 2017, when he won bronze at the 2017 Championships in Sarasota, Florida in PR3 mixed coxed four, an adaptive rowing class. [4] At young level he won a gold medal at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna with the lightweight men's eight. [5]
From 1999 to 2009 Iannuzzi participated in sixteen editions of World Rowing Championships. [6]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Time |
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| 1991 | World Championships |  Vienna | 1st | Lightweight Eight | 6:13.21 |
| 1993 | World Championships |  Račice | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:41.53 |
| 1994 | World Championships |  Indianapolis | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:34.63 |
| 1995 | World Championships |  Tampere | 3rd | Lightweight Eight | 5:58.77 |
| 1997 | World Championships |  Aiguebelette-le-Lac | 2nd | Coxed Four | 6:05.98 |
| 2000 | Olympic Games |  Sydney | 4th | Eight | 5:35.37 |
| 2004 | Olympic Games |  Athens | 7th | Eight | 5:46.36 |
| 2005 | World Championships |  Kaizu | 2nd | Eight | 5:24.01 |
| 2006 | World Championships |  Eton | 2nd | Eight | 5:23.29 |
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