Giuseppe Abbagnale (born 24 July 1959 in Pompei)[1] is the current president of the Italian Rowing Federation[2] and former Italian rower who won multiple coxed pair world and Olympic championships with his brother Carmine Abbagnale.

The Abbagnale brothers are the older brothers of the three-time Olympic champion Agostino.

[3] He received a gold medal in coxed pair with Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) and his younger brother Carmine, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,[4] and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

[5] The crew won silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona behind another pair of brothers, Greg and Jonny Searle.

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