Agostino Straulino
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Sailing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1952 Helsinki | Starboat class | |
| Silver | 1956 Melbourne | Starboat class | |
Agostino Straulino (October 10, 1914 – December 14, 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 in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class.
Straulino was born in Lussinpiccolo on the island of Lussino, Croatia.
He gained his first sailing experiences as a child on the Istrian coast of the northern Adriatic sea. He later attended the naval academy at Livorno and embarked on a naval career during which he was commanding officer of the Italian training vessel Amerigo Vespucci for some time and eventually rose to the rank of a Rear Admiral.
Between 1949 and 1956 he won eight consecutive European championships in the starboat class. In 1952 and 1953 he was also world champion in this class. The climax of his career as a sportsman was his gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Four years later he won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. After his partner Nico Rode quit, Straulino continued to compete at Olympic games with his new partner Carlo Rolandi in the starboat class (1960 Summer Olympics, Rome, fourth place) and the 5.5m-class (1964 Summer Olympics, Tokyo, fourth place). One year later he won the world championship of the 5.5m-class.
He continued to compete in regattas on bigger boats and won the One Ton Cup off Porto Cervo in 1973 and the Italian long-distance-race Giraglia.
Straulino died in Rome in 2004.
Categories: 1914 births | 2004 deaths | Croatians of Italian descent | Italian natives of former Yugoslavia | Italian sailors | Italian sailboat racers | Olympic gold medalists for Italy | Olympic silver medalists for Italy | Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics | Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics | Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics | Sailors at the 1964 Summer Olympics
