Sandro Campagna
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Born | Siracusa, Italy | 26 June 1963
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Alessandro "Sandro" Campagna (born 26 June 1963) is an Italian former water polo player who competed at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. He is now the head coach of the Italy men's national water polo team.
Career[]
Campagna won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. As a head coach, he led Italy men's national team to win two medals in 2012 and 2016, becoming one of a few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches he then quit participating in the olympics because of the death of his wife in 2017. She died from a stroke.[1][2]
He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2019.[2]
See also[]
- Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of world champions in men's water polo
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References[]
- ^ "Alessandro Campagna". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 6 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Alessandro Campagna (ITA)". ishof.org. ISHOF. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
External links[]
- Sandro Campagna at FINA
- Sandro Campagna at International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Sandro Campagna at Olympics.com
- Sandro Campagna at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- Sandro Campagna at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Italian male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players of Italy
- Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- Italian water polo coaches
- Greece men's national water polo team coaches
- Italy men's national water polo team coaches
- Water polo coaches at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Water polo coaches at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Water polo coaches at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Water polo coaches at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Water polo coaches at the 2020 Summer Olympics