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Gerupuk Inside
Gerupuk Inside (Inside Right, Bumbang) is a right-hand reef surf break in Gerupuk Bay, Lombok, Indonesia, about 7 km east of Kuta Lombok; boat-access only, beginner-intermediate, year-round, and among Lombok's most crowded breaks.
Giaan Rooney
Giaan Rooney (Giaan Leigh Rooney), Australian swimmer and TV presenter born 1982 in Brisbane; Olympic 4x100 medley relay gold and world record 3:57.32 at Athens 2004, 2001 world 200 m freestyle champion, retired 2006, now a commentator and macadamia farmer.
Giacomo Perez Dortona
Giacomo Perez Dortona (born 1989, La Seyne-sur-Mer) is a French breaststroke swimmer of CN Marseille; world champion 4x100m medley relay Barcelona 2013, European champion 4x50m medley relay 2012, French 100m breaststroke short-course record 56.78, Olympian London 2012.
Giancarlo Guerrini
Giancarlo Guerrini (1939–2025) was an Italian water polo player who won Olympic gold with Italy at Rome 1960 and later held senior roles with the Italian Swimming and Fencing Federations.
Gianluca Farina
Gianluca Farina (born 1962, Casalmaggiore) is an Italian rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988 and bronze medalist at Barcelona 1992, with four World Championship medals.
Gianni Lonzi
Gianni Lonzi (born 1938, Florence) is an Italian water polo player, coach, and administrator: Olympic gold 1960 as player, 1978 World Championship gold as Italy coach, FINA Technical Water Polo Committee chairman 1996-2017, ISHOF inductee 2009.
Gijs Damen
Gijs Damen (born 1979) is a retired Dutch 50 m freestyle swimmer; with PSV and the Netherlands he won three golds and one silver in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the European Short Course Championships, setting a 1:25.55 world record in Dublin 2003.
Gilbert Gray
Gilbert T. Gray (1902–1981) was an American sailor from New Orleans who won Olympic gold in the Star class at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, skippering Jupiter with Andrew Libano; not the sprinter Glenroy Gilbert.
Gilbert Laws
Gilbert Umfreville Laws (1870-1918), British yacht designer and sailor; won 1908 Olympic gold as helmsman of Dormy, which he designed, in the 6-metre class; founded Burnham Boat Building Company.
Gilchrist Maclagan
Gilchrist Stanley Maclagan (1879-1915), British rowing coxswain nicknamed Cocky; coxed Oxford in four Boat Races 1899-1902 and the Leander eight to the 1908 Olympic eights gold, with a record six Grand Challenge Cup wins; killed at the Second Battle of Ypres.
Gildo Arena
Gildo Arena (Ermenegildo Arena), Italian water polo player and freestyle swimmer born 1921 in Naples; Settebello attacker, 1948 Olympic gold and 1952 bronze, 1947 European champion, inventor of the beduina back-hand shot.
Giles Scott
Giles Scott (Giles Lyndon Scott), British sailor born 1987 in Huntingdon, two-time Olympic Finn gold medallist (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), four-time Finn World Champion, later America's Cup tactician and SailGP driver.
Gili T Surfspot
Gili T Surfspot, locally called Secrets, is an inconsistent right-hand coral reef break about 300 m off Gili Trawangan's southeast corner, Lombok, Indonesia, suiting intermediate and advanced surfers on SW swells at mid to high tide.
Gillian van den Berg
Gillian van den Berg (born 1971, Gouda) is a Dutch water polo player, captain at Sydney 2000 (4th) and gold medalist at Beijing 2008, the oldest women's Olympic water polo gold medalist at 36 years 348 days.
Giorgio Lamberti
Giorgio Lamberti, Italian freestyle swimmer born 1969 in Brescia; set the 200 m freestyle world record (1:46.69, Bonn 1989) and won Italy's first male world swimming gold, Perth 1991.
Giovanni de Gennaro
Giovanni De Gennaro, born 1992 in Brescia, is an Italian canoe slalom paddler, Olympic K1 gold medalist at Paris 2024 (88.22 s), three-time Olympian, and World and European championship medalist.
Giovanni Delise
Giovanni Delise (1907–1947), Italian rower born in Izola, Istria; Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed four at Amsterdam 1928 with the SN Pullino crew, also European champion in 1929 and 1931.
Giovanni Invernizzi
Giovanni Invernizzi: name shared by an Italian Olympic rowing gold medalist (coxless four, London 1948, Canottieri Moto Guzzi), Inter Milan's 1970-71 Scudetto-winning coach, and a Sampdoria midfielder born 1963.
Giovanni Leone Reggio
Giovanni Leone Reggio (1888–1971/72), Italian sailor from Genoa; skippered Italia to Italy's first Olympic sailing gold, 8-metre class, Berlin 1936; also raced at Amsterdam 1928 and London 1948.
Giovanni Scatturin
Giovanni Scatturin (1893-1951), Venetian Italian rower, coxed pair specialist; Olympic gold Antwerp 1920 and silver Paris 1924 with Ercole Olgeni, first Italian rowing gold, later emigrated to Argentina.
Gisela Grass
Gisela Schöbel-Grass (Gisela Graß), German swimmer born 18 June 1926 in Leipzig; set the 100 m breaststroke world record of 1:19.80 on 9 May 1943, first woman under 1:20, and later set masters age-group records.
Gisela Medefindt
Gisela Medefindt (later Bodis), born 1957, East German rower of SC Berlin-Grünau; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold in coxed quadruple sculls as a heat rower, 1974 world bronze in double sculls.
Giulia Manfrini
Giulia Manfrini (1988-2024), Italian surfer and AWAVE Travel co-founder from Venaria Reale; former Italian Big Air snowboard champion; died 18 October 2024 when an imperial needlefish pierced her chest at Beng Bengs, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Giuseppe Abbagnale
Giuseppe Abbagnale (born 1959, Pompei), Italian rower who with brother Carmine and cox Di Capua won Olympic coxed pair gold 1984 and 1988, silver 1992, and seven world titles, later president of the Italian Rowing Federation.
Giuseppe D'altrui
Giuseppe 'Geppino' D'Altrui (1934-2024), Italian water polo player, captain of the Settebello gold medalists at the 1960 Rome Olympics; also 1956 and 1964 Olympian, 75 caps, later coach, ISHOF 2010 with son Marco.
Giuseppe di Capua
Giuseppe Di Capua (Peppiniello), born 1958 in Salerno, is Italy's most decorated rowing coxswain: two Olympic golds (1984, 1988) and a silver (1992) steering the Abbagnale brothers' coxed pair, plus seven world titles and a para-rowing comeback.
Giuseppe Moioli
Giuseppe Moioli (1927–2025), Italian rower, Moto Guzzi club; Olympic gold in coxless fours at London 1948 with Morille, Invernizzi, Faggi; five European titles; later coach; oldest living Italian Olympic medalist at death.
Giuseppe Porzio
Giuseppe Porzio, known as Pino, is an Italian water polo player and coach, born in 1967 in Napoli, who won Olympic gold with Italy at Barcelona 1992.
Glossary of rowing terms
The glossary of rowing terms, also called a list of rowing terms, defines the sport's vocabulary: boat codes, the coxswain, stroke phases, and race formats like regattas.
Go And Surf
Go And Surf (Go&Surf), surf school founded 1996 at Labenne Océan and Ondres, Landes, France, by Landes instructors including Benoît Goxes; surf, bodyboard, and stand up paddle lessons, chalets 30 m from the ocean, and a week-long surf camp.