Berlin 1936

1936 Unione Canottieri Livornesi Eight
Olympic Silver Medal, Langersee
bow Gugliemo Del Bimbo, 2 Dino Barsotti
3 Oreste Grossi, 4 Enzo Bartolini, 5 Mario Checcacci
6 Dante Secchi, 7 Ottorino Quaglierini
stroke Enrico Garzelli, coxswain Cesare Milani

In a time when most of the rowers came from universities, they were stevedores and dock workers in the port of Livorno, people accustomed to hard work. The group found its nickname at a regional championship in 1928: rowing with force and without technique, the boat “scarrocciava” (drifted left and right).
Some Tuscan wit called them “Scarronzoni” and the name stuck to all the Livornese crews until 1948. In this period, the eight of the “Canottieri Livornesi” won twelve Italian titles, one Bronze, three Silver and two Gold Medals in the European Championships. They won the Silver Medal at the Olympics Games in Los Angeles and Berlin.This last endeavour can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl's “Olympia”.

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