Martino Goretti

Martino Goretti (born 27 September 1985) is an Italian representative lightweight rower, a current (2019) world champion and a dual Olympian.

Goretti's international representative debut for Italy was in 2003 when he was selected in the coxless four to compete at the 2003 World Junior Rowing Championships in Athens.

[1] The following year he competed in the Italian lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznan and won silver.

[1] At the U23 World Championships in Amsterdam that year he stroked the Italian lightweight U23 coxless four to a bronze medal.

[1] In the Olympic year of 2012, Italy's lightweight coxless four with Goretti at stroke, found themselves out of top contention.

[1] Their 2016 campaign in the run down to the 2016 Rio Olympics saw them out of medal contention in two World Rowing Cups but in Rio they showed better form winning their heat and semi-final and holding down third spot at the first two 500m marks of the final only to be rowed down by France and finishing in fourth place and off the medal podium.

[4] The hydrofoil blade design was first introduced by Ian Randall at the 2018 FISA International Coaches Conference, Berlin.