Nicolò "Nico" Rode (1 January 1912 – 4 May 1998) was an Italian

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...

. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics in the

Star A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...

class with skipper

Agostino Straulino Agostino Straulino (10 October 1914 – 14 December 2004) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal and one silver medal in the Star class, and eight consecutive European championships and two world championships ...

on ''Merope''. They won a gold medal in 1952 and a silver in 1956 and finished fifth in 1948. Like Straulino, Rode was born in

Mali Lošinj Mali Lošinj is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, on the island of Lošinj, in western Croatia. At the time of the 2021 census, there were 7,537 inhabitants, of whom 86% were Croats. The town of Mali Lošinj itself had an urban populat ...

on the island of

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(at that time in the Austrian part of

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* 1912 births 1998 deaths Italian male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Star Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Star Olympic sailors for Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic silver medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in sailing Star class world champions Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics World champions in sailing for Italy Sailors of Marina Militare People from Mali Lošinj Sportspeople from Primorje-Gorski Kotar County 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-yachtracing-bio-stub