- Giancarlo Peris
Giancarlo Peris (born
November 4 ,1941 ), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of theOlympic torch for the1960 Summer Olympics inRome , Italy.Peris was born in
Civitavecchia , a port city on theTyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest ofRome . He was chosen to be the last torchbearer because he was a very promising young half-track athlete, among other things having participated, one month before the opening of the Olympic games, in a competition of the national junior/youth team againstPoland . Currentlyas of 2004 he teaches history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He has two sons, aged 35 and 28 years. Besides teaching he is the trainer of a small light athletics club. He also enjoys writing and teaching the writing of verse.###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Final Summer Olympic Torchbearer
Giancarlo Peris
before="Ron Clarke " "Melbourne 1956"
after="Yoshinori Sakai " "Tokyo 1964"
years=Rome 1960
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