Giancarlo Peris
{{Short description|Italian track athlete}}
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| event = Cross country running
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| birth_place = Civitavecchia, Kingdom of Italy
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Giancarlo Peris (born 4 November 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/ |title=Giancarlo Peris：From Rome 1960 to Beijing 2008 |work=beijing2008.cn |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527210110/http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/ |archivedate=27 May 2013 }}
Biography
Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympic Games would be the winner of a junior Cross country running race. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer. Peris was also a promising track athlete and few months before the opening of the Olympic games he competed for his country's national junior/youth team against Poland.
He later became a teacher of history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He also coached at a small athletics club.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
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- {{in lang|it}} {{YouTube|njVbl1LDVzU|Peris' interview}}
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{{succession box | title=Final Olympic torchbearer| before=Ken Henry | after= Josl Rieder| years=Rome 1960}}
{{succession box | title=Final Summer Olympic torchbearer | before=Ron Clarke & Hans Wikne | after=Yoshinori Sakai| years=Rome 1960}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Civitavecchia
Category:Athletes from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital
Category:Olympic cauldron lighters
Category:Italian male middle-distance runners