ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The world of Italian sport weeps Davide Tizzano. mourning for the disappearance at 57 years of the current president of FIC, originally from Naples where he died in the afternoon after a bad illness, and twice Olympic champion (gold in the four pair in Seoul 1988 and in the two couple in Atlanta 1996).
Tizzano had been elected to the head of the Federcanottaggio a little more than a year ago, on 24 November 2024, when he succeeded in having the best on the outgoing president and in office since 2012, Giuseppe Abbagnale. It was for the former canopyer the closure of a circle, after a career started in his Naples and then continued very young in the federal center of Piediluco. The first joys come to the Junior Worlds (silver in single in Brandenburg and gold a year later in Radice), then among the “great” conquered silver with the four pair in Bled in 1989, a year after the Olympic joy shared with Piero Poli, Gianluca Farina and Augustine Abbagnale. In Atlanta, in 1996, the other five-round gold, this time in double with only Augustine Abbagnale, a race made unforgettable also by the telescope of Giampiero Galeazzi and after an effort by Tizzano that required the intervention of doctors.
Not only canoeing though: between the two Olympic medals also a passage in the sail, with a role in the Moro di Venezia that won the Louis Vuitton Cup and the subsequent experience with Mascalzone Latino. Once the nail is suspended, for Tizzano begins a new management life in the Federation, accompanying the Italian delegation in Athens in 2004, as well as leading the regional committee of FIC in Campania from 2001 to 2012. he will supervise the march of approach to the scheduled edition next year in Taranto.
Then, as said, in November of last year his election to number one of the Federation where he had already removed the first satisfactions, from the European 2026 brought to Varese to the Paralympic Medal of Paris returned to Perini, passing through the appointment of Antonio Colamonici, great creator of the Romanian successes of recent years, as dt of the National in view of Los Angeles. Games to which Tizzano will not be able to attend. “His light will never turn out and will forever guide his sons Rosanna, Vittoria, Giuseppe Leone and his wife Roberta”, the cord of the Federation.
“We lose a great champion and a leading sports manager”, recalls the president of the Coni, Luciano Buonfiglio, while the joint mayor Gaetano Manfredi, announces that he will be dedicated tomorrow the presentation of Naples European Capital of Sport at Male Angioino: “We do not lose only an immense champion, but a man who has been able to embody the noblest values of sport: sacrifice, loyalty and ability to overcome every limit. David was a reference point for entire generations of athletes and a pride for all Neapolitans.” Also tomorrow, at 17, in the Basilica of the crowned Mother of the Good Council of Naples, funerals.
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