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Giovanni Ficarra

Personal information

Born

18 June 1996 (age 28)
Messina, Italy^[1]

Sport

Country

Italy

Sport

Rowing

Club

Pelororow^[1]

Medal record

World Championships

	2022 Račice	Lightweight coxless pair
World U23 Championships
	2015 Plovdiv	Lightweight coxless pair
	2017 Plovdiv	Lightweight coxless four
Mediterranean Beach Games
	2023 Heraklion	Single sculls
	2023 Heraklion	Mixed relay

Giovanni Ficarra (born 18 June 1996) is an Italian rower who won a gold medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships.^[2]

Career

He was the first rower in the world to win the "Triple Crown", i.e. the conquest of a podium in each of the three rowing world championships: traditional rowing. indoor rowing and beach sprint rowing.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Giovanni Ficarra - Scheda Informativa Atleta". canottaggio.net (in Italian). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
^ "ROWING - SCHEDULE AND RESULTS". munich2022.com. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
^ "GIOVANNI FICARRA CONQUISTA L'ORO CHE GLI MANCAVA ED È IL PRIMO AL MONDO AD OTTENERE IL TRIPLE CROWN". canottaggio.org (in Italian). 27 February 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
^ "WORLD RECORDS AND VERSA CHALLENGES HIGHLIGHT DAY ONE OF THE 2023 WORLD ROWING INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". worldrowing.com. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023. The "Triple Crown" for Ficarra. He won a World Rowing Champion title in the Lightweight Men's Pair in Racice in 2022. He was already a Beach Sprint Champion from 2021. Giovanni Ficarra of Italy is now a World Rowing Indoor Champion – and certainly one of the most versatile rowers in the world. He won the 23-39 Lightweight Men's 500m, just 0.2 seconds ahead of Jose Daniel Martinez Lopez of Spain.