Oreste Perri (born 27 June 1951) is an Italian sprint canoeist (and later politician) who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.
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| Born | 27 June 1951 Castelverde, Lombardy, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mayor of Cremona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 23 June 2009 – 12 June 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Gian Carlo Corada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Gianluca Galimberti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | The People of Freedom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editPerri was born in Castelverde, in the province of Cremona. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 1000 m: 1975 (tied with Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski, K-1 10000 m: 1974, 1975, 1977) and two bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1974, 1977).
Perri also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth twice (1972: K-4 1000 m, 1976: K-1 1000 m). On 22 June 2009, Perri was sworn in as mayor of Cremona, Italy.
References
edit- "Profile as Cremona's mayor". comune.cremona.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Oreste Perri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
