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On the first weekend of May, three students from the University won races at the traditional university event in France. Gabriele Bettineschi took home four gold medals

A team from Bocconi Sport's rowing section won the 500-meter sprint and 1,000-meter quadruple sculls races at the Régate Universitaire Internationale d'Avron, held on May 3 and 4 in Nantes. The event, now in its 38th edition and reserved for university crews, featured men's, women's, and mixed crews. The quadruple sculls team, composed of Gabriele Bettineschi (BAI student), Mario Guareschi (CLEAM), Tiziano Siniscalchi (BESS) and Politecnico di Milano student Paolo Gregori, dominated both races, both in the morning heats and in the afternoon finals. “About twenty European universities took part in the competition,” said captain Gabriele Bettineschi, “because rowing is traditionally one of the most popular sports at university level. In fact, it is also one of the sports with the longest tradition at Olympic level, as it has been part of the Games program since the beginning.” In addition to the two gold medals with the quadruple sculls, Bettineschi achieved two more victories competing with the CUS Milano eight, a truly enviable haul: “I'm originally from Lake Iseo,” explains Gabriele, “so rowing as a child was almost natural. But it's not just that. I like rowing because it can be both an individual and a team sport, in the truest sense of the word. And, more than anything else, it's perhaps the only sport where you compete with the finish line behind you.”

“This result bodes well, above all because it testifies to the growth of the group,” says Enzo Baglieri, professor at Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi school of management and head of the Rowing section of Bocconi Sport, who still competes in the Master categories, “thanks also to the collaboration with CUS Milano and Canottieri San Cristoforo, who support us in our training. Rowing is a very popular sport at university level, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, culminating, of course, in the famous annual Cambridge-Oxford challenge, and it is not uncommon for students who come to Bocconi on exchange to join our group in order to continue their activity and keep fit.”

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