Andrea Giuseppe "Beppe" Croce was a sailor and yachtsman from Genoa, Italy.
12 Facts About Beppe Croce
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In 1939 Croce won the Italian University Star Class championship.
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Beppe Croce won the 1969 5.50 class Italian Championship on Lake Garda, where three years earlier he had won the Centomiglia regatta.
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Beppe Croce served as an army officer during World War II.
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From 1946 to 1980, Beppe Croce served as president of Lloyd Italico, an insurance company founded by his grandfather.
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Beppe Croce competed in the 6 metre class at the 1948 Summer Olympics and contributed organizing the 1960 Naples sailing Olympics as the president of the Olympic Committee.
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In 1952, together with his friend Rene Levainville, Beppe Croce founded the famous Giraglia Cup, a regatta between St Tropez and Genova organized by the Yacht Club Italiano in collaboration with the Yacht Club de France, which nowadays involves hundreds of sailors and maxi yachts.
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Beppe Croce played a key role in the organization of the 1982 Azzurra America's Cup Challenge, the first Italian America's Cup challenge.
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From 1969 to his death in 1986, Beppe Croce was the first non-British president of the International Sailing Federation.
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Beppe Croce was the president of the Italian Sailing Federation from 1957 to 1981, and of the Yacht Club Italiano from 1958 to 1986.
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Beppe Croce was the longtime vice president of the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano.
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Beppe Croce was President of the Yacht Club Italiano.