Luigi Arturo Carpaneda ( Italian: Luigi Arturo Carpaneda , November 28, 1925 , Milan , Italy - December 14, 2011 , ibid.) - Italian fencer, champion of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, silver medalist at the Summer Olympics in Rome 1960 .
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Champion OI 1956, silver. winner of the Olympic Games 1960 in the foil fencing team championship.
At the Olympics in Melbourne (1956) he won gold in the team rapier. Four years later, at the Games in Rome (1960), he became a silver medalist in the same discipline when the Italians lost in the final to the USSR national team. He also became a world champion in Rome (1955) in a team rapier and a Paris bronze medalist (1957).
Inveterate yachtsman - in 1981, he won the prestigious Three Quarter Ton Cup regatta. He was elected president of the Italian Sailing Federation and five times was captain of the Italian team at the Admiral's Cup team regatta.
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- Luigi Carpaneda - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- milano.repubblica.it