Danio Merli is an Italian

Italy

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 sprint canoer

Canoe racing

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 who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the second time, having hosted them in 1971. This also equaled the most times a city had done so with Copenhagen, Denmark ....

 in Belgrade

Belgrade

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Merli also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of ninth in the K-2 1000 m

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Men's K-2 1000 metres

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 event at Moscow

Moscow

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 in 1980

1980 Summer Olympics

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Now he is a gym teacher and one of three coachs of the Canoe Team of Canottieri Baldesio in Cremona, Lombardy.