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Oreste Perri (born June 27, 1951) is an Italian sprint canoeist (and later politician) who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.
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Perri was born in Castelverde, in the province of Cremona. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 1000 m: 1975 (tied with Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski, K-1 10000 m: 1974, 1975, 1977) and two bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1974, 1977).
Perri also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth twice (1972: K-4 1000 m, 1976: K-1 1000 m).
On 22 June 2009, Perri was sworn in as mayor of Cremona, Italy.
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