Martino Goretti

Martino Goretti (born 27 September 1985) is an Italian representative lightweight rower, a world champion and a dual Olympian. He has represented at senior World Rowing Championships and World Rowing Cups consistently from 2005 to 2019. He is a four time world champion at the senior level who won three titles in Italian lightweight eights from 2005 to 2009 and then in 2019 won the lightweight single scull world title. He had previously won underage world championships as a junior and an U23.

International representative rowing Early career Goretti's international representative debut for Italy was in 2003 when he was selected in the coxless four to compete at the 2003 World Junior Rowing Championships in Athens. That crew won gold and a world junior title. The following year he competed in the Italian lightweight coxless four at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznan and won silver. The Italian lightweights had better luck in the non-Olympic eights event at the 2012 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv where they took the silver medal with Goretti rowing in the six seat. The hydrofoil blade design was first introduced by Ian Randall at the 2018 FISA International Coaches Conference, Berlin.