Daniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events.
Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1985).
He quit the national team in 1997 to what he claimed was widespread doping. Scarpa also was elected to the local government as a member of the Greens Party.
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Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-2 1000 m |
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1936: Austria (Adolf Kainz, Alfons Dorfner) • 1948: Sweden (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingström) • 1952: Finland (Kurt Wires, Yrjö Hietanen) • 1956: Germany (Michael Scheuer, Meinrad Miltenberger) • 1960: Sweden (Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjödelius) • 1964: Sweden (Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Gunnar Utterberg) • 1968: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov) • 1972: Soviet Union (Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk) • 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky) • 1980: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich, Sergei Chukhray) • 1984: Canada (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris) • 1988: United States (Greg Barton, Norman Bellingham) • 1992: Germany (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche) • 1996: Italy (Daniele Scarpa, Antonio Rossi) • 2000: Italy (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi) • 2004: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson) • 2008: Germany (Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein)
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