Ivo Stefanoni

Ivo Stefanoni ( born June 5, 1936 in Mandello del Lario ) is a former Italian coxswain in rowing, the three reached the finals in three Olympic appearances and won two medals.

At the helm European Championships 1956 in Bled occupied Trincavelli Franco, Angelo Vanzin, Romano Sgheiz, Alberto Winkler and helmsman Ivo Stefanoni third place in the four with coxswain behind the boats from Finland and the Soviet Union. The Soviet four dropped out at the Olympic Games 1956 in the semifinals. The five Italians were victorious in the final three seconds ahead of the Swedes and the Finnish European masters.

1957 changed the entire four in the eighth and won at the European Championships in Duisburg. Sgheiz, Winkler and Stefanoni helped in 1958 to defend the title in Poznań. For the 1960 Olympics Stefanoni changed again in the quad, of the third place in the cast Sgheiz Romano, Franco Trincavelli, Fulvio Balatti, Giovanni Zucchi and Ivo Stefanoni behind the boats from Germany and France.

1961 won Stefanoni in Prague his third European title with the eighth. For this eight three man sat by the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in eighth: Giampietro Gilardi, Sereno Brunello and Ivo Stefanoni. The Italian finished eighth in 1964 to sixth place in the Olympic final.