- Danio Merli
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint World Championships Silver 1975 Belgrade K-2 10000 m Danio Merli (born June 9, 1956) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.
Merli also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of ninth in the K-2 1000 m event at Moscow in 1980. Now he is a gym teacher and one of three coachs of the Canoe Team of Canottieri Baldesio in Cremona, Lombardy.
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
Categories:- 1956 births
- Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Italian canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Italy
- Italian canoeist stubs
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