INTERNATIONAL ROWING TURNS PROFESSIONAL John Cooke Canottieri Moto Guzzi Coxed-Four 1956 Olympic Champion, Lake Wendouree Bow Romano Sgheiz 6’2” 187cm 185lb. 84kg, 2 Angelo Vanzin 5’11” 180cm 166lb. 75kg, 3 Alberto Winkler 6’0” 183cm 166lb. 75kg, Stroke Franco Trincavelli 6’1” 185cm 198lb. 90kg, Coxswain Ivo Stefanoni 5’5” 165cm 121lb. 55kg 0°, +40° to -30°, 0-10, 0-10, 0-10, Classical Technique, concurrent Schubschlag Relaxed posture at entry and release, high arc to back swing. International debut of the “Carcano tandem” or Italian rig. picked to represent Italy in the Olympic Games. The boats always had a slightly unsteady twisting motion. Carcano reasoned if this twisting could be eliminated, the boats would go faster. He rearranged the position of the oars, instead of left-right-left-right, he set them in a left-right-right-left config- uration. “Secretly, cine film was made of this to prove it, and the boats were definitely faster. However, the Italian Rowing Committee insisted that only one team could use the Carcano rowing system. In the Melbourne Olympics, the Carcano team got the Gold Medal whilst the other team only got Silver.”2851 In Australia, the European Champion Coxless-Four rowing a standard rig, bow- seat Attilio Cantoni, Abbondio Marcelli in 2, Giovanni Zucchi in 3 and stroke-seat Giuseppe Moioli, now 29 years old, won their heat by open water over Poland and Finland while the Vancouver/British Columbia Four2852 set a time 5.3 seconds faster in winning their heat. The Italians then placed second by more than ten seconds to the U.S. in their semi- 2851 Bill Lomas, Bill Lomas World Champion Road Racer, Redline Books, Gateshead, UK, 2004, p. 7 2852 See Chapter 65. 803
