Savino Rebek

Through 2016, Savino Rebek is one of only two Italian single scullers (along with Romolo Catasta, bronze medalist at 1948 London Games) to reach an Olympics final. Rebek was sixth on Albano Lake in a race dominated by the Soviet Vyacheslav Ivanov, winner of three consecutive gold medals in this event. For his entire career Rebek was with the club Ginnastica Triestina under coach Mario Ustolin (an Olympian at London in 1948) where, in 1958 and 1959, he won the singles and, alongside the non-Olympian Claudio Crusizio, also the double sculls.

A lithographer by trade, Rebek was the best Italian sculler for a few more years but, after a ninth place at the 1961 Praha European Championships, he was forced to withdraw from the first World Championships at Lucerne in 1962, due to injury.