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July 24, 1959 (age 57) Pompei, Naples, Italy |
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Giuseppe Abbagnale (born July 24, 1959 in Pompei) is an Italian rower who won multiple coxed pair world and Olympic championships with his brother Carmine Abbagnale.
He received a gold medal in coxed pairs, with Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) and his younger brother Carmine, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.