Giuseppe Di Capua

{{short description|Italian rower}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|03|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Salerno, Italy

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| height = 1.55 m

| weight = 53 kg

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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|1984 Los Angeles|Coxed pair}}

{{MedalGold|1988 Seoul|Coxed pair}}

{{MedalSilver|1992 Barcelona|Coxed pair}}

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Giuseppe "Peppiniello" Di Capua (born 15 March 1958) is an Italian competition rowing coxswain and Olympic champion.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Giuseppe Di Capua |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/giuseppe-di-capua-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112072059/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/giuseppe-di-capua-1.html |archive-date=12 November 2012 |access-date=28 October 2012}}

Biography

Di Capua was born in Salerno. He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as cox, with Giuseppe Abbagnale and Carmine Abbagnale, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=21&sp=ROW |title=1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Rowing |website=databaseOlympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517013442/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=21&sp=ROW |archive-date=17 May 2011 |access-date=13 May 2008}} and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=22&sp=ROW |title=1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Rowing |website=databaseOlympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531095250/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=22&sp=ROW |archive-date=31 May 2008 |access-date=13 May 2008}} The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=23&sp=ROW |title=1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Rowing |website=databaseOlympics.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080823075020/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=23&sp=ROW |archive-date=23 August 2008 |access-date=13 May 2008}} In 2013 he won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea, coxing the Italian LTA mixed coxed four, and in 2014 a bronze in the same event at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

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