Giancarlo Peris
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.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Giancarlo Peris：From Rome 1960 to Beijing 2008". http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
[edit] External links
- (Italian) Peris' interview on YouTube
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| Preceded by Ron Clarke & Hans Wikne |
Final Summer Olympic Torchbearer Rome 1960 |
Succeeded by Yoshinori Sakai |
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