Nationality Italian Sport Athletics | Name Giancarlo Peris Events Cross country running | |
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Born 4 November 1941 (age 82) ( 1941-11-04 ) Civitavecchia, Italy | ||
Civitavecchia verso pechino giancarlo peris
Giancarlo Peris (born 4 November 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
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- Civitavecchia verso pechino giancarlo peris
- Giancarlo peris ospite a i migliori anni su rai uno 30 09 2011
- Biography
- References
Giancarlo peris ospite a i migliori anni su rai uno 30 09 2011
Biography
Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympic Games would be the winner of a junior Cross country running race. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer. Peris was also a promising track athlete and few months before the opening of the Olympic games he competed for his country's national junior/youth team against Poland.
He later became a teacher of history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He also coached at a small athletics club.