Giuseppe "Peppiniello" Di Capua (born 15 March 1958) is an Italian competition rowing coxswain and Olympic champion.

Biography

Di Capua was born in

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. He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as

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, with Giuseppe Abbagnale and Carmine Abbagnale, at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

in Los Angeles, and again at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

in Seoul. The crew won silver medals at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle. In 2013 he won a silver medal at the

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in Chungju, Korea, coxing the Italian LTA mixed coxed four, and in 2014 a bronze in the same event at the

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in Amsterdam.

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* 1958 births Living people Italian male rowers Olympic rowers for Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Italian coxswains (rowing) Sportspeople from Salerno Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Italy World Rowing Championships medalists for Italy Sportspeople from the Province of Salerno 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub