Giancarlo Peris (born November 4, 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.[1]
Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that last torchbearer of the Olympic Games, would have been the winner of a junior Cross country running race. He won and he was chosen to be the last torchbearer.[1] However, he was a very promising young half-track athlete, among other things having participated, few months before the opening of the Olympic games, in a competition of the national junior/youth team against Poland.
Currently as of 2004[update] he teaches history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He has two sons, aged 35 and 28 years. Besides teaching he is the trainer of a small light athletics club. He also enjoys writing and teaching the writing of verse.
References
- ^ a b "Giancarlo Peris：From Rome 1960 to Beijing 2008". http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
Extneral links
- (Italian) Peris' interview at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash)
| Preceded by Ron Clarke Melbourne 1956 |
Final Summer Olympic Torchbearer Giancarlo Peris Rome 1960 |
Succeeded by Yoshinori Sakai Tokyo 1964 |
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