Romano Sgheiz

Romano Sgheiz ( born June 28, 1937 in Colico ) is a former Italian rower who reached the final four times in four 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 quad retired from the 1956 Olympic Games 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. 1959 was taken by the Italian eighth at the European Championships in fourth place. For the 1960 Olympics Sgheiz changed again in the quad, of the third place in the cast Sgheiz, Franco Trincavelli, Fulvio Balatti, Giovanni Zucchi and Ivo Stefanoni behind the boats from Germany and France.

1961 won Sgheiz in Prague his third European title with the eighth. At the European Championships 1963 in Copenhagen, he won together with Zucchi, Luciano Sgheiz Balatti and silver in the coxless four. With this lineup the four rowers occupied at the Olympic Games in 1964 to fifth place, after winning bronze at the European Championships. After that, Romano Sgheiz withdrew, but returned for the 1968 Olympics back again in the four with coxswain. In the Olympic final the Italians reached the fourth place with a half-second behind the third-ranked Swiss.

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