Sandro Campagna

{{short description|Italian water polo player}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Sandro Campagna

| image = Alessandro Campagna.JPG

| image_size =

| caption = Campagna as head coach of Italian men's national water polo team at 2015 World Aquatics Championships

| full_name = Alessandro Campagna

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|6|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Siracusa, Italy

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|1992 Barcelona|Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1994 Roma|Team}}

{{MedalSilver|1986 Madrid|Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1993 Sheffield|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|1987 Strasbourg|Team}}

{{MedalBronze|1989 Bonn|Team}}

}}

Alessandro Campagna (born 26 June 1963) is an Italian former water polo player who competed at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. He is now the head coach of the Italy men's national water polo team.

Career

Campagna won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. As a head coach, he led Italy men's national team to win two medals in 2012 and 2016, becoming one of a few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches he then quit participating in the olympics because of the death of his wife in 2017. She died from a stroke.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Alessandro Campagna |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/alessandro-campagna-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406000456/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/alessandro-campagna-1.html |archive-date=6 April 2011}}{{cite web |title=Alessandro Campagna (ITA) |url=https://ishof.org/alessandro-campagna.html |website=ISHOF.org |publisher=International Swimming Hall of Fame |access-date=5 May 2020 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921072216/https://ishof.org/alessandro-campagna.html |url-status=dead }}

He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2019.

See also

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