EVENTS
1st edition of the San Giovanni Challenge Rowing Trophy Florence
Born from an idea of the President of Canottieri Firenze, Michele Nannelli and the Company Council, it took place on 27 June, with an international rowing sprint over a distance of 500 metres. on the mixed 8+ (4 boys and 4 girls) starting from the Santa Trinita Bridge and arriving right in front of the rowing club, under Ponte Vecchio. A regatta with which the organizers intend to pay homage to the first time the Tour de France started from Florence and Italy, scheduled for June 29th. Two disciplines, rowing and cycling, side by side in the cradle of the Italian Renaissance waiting to meet again exactly one month later, at the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Filippiboats based in Donoratico will also be there with its assistance service on the occasion (Livorno), supplier of the 8+ for the Florentine event (company info attached) and world leader in the construction of almost 70% of the hulls, representing at least 50 nations, which will compete in Paris in just over a month (kick off 27 July). There are 8 Nations in the water under the medieval Ponte Vecchio in Florence, chosen specifically because they represent both international cycling and rowing at the highest levels. Starting from the most famous rowing flagship (along with Oxford) that of the University of Cambridge, representing Great Britain. Obviously, Italy participated with a Federal crew, France with the Societe Nautique of Vichy, Slovenia with RC Bled, Holland with the University of Delft, Germany with the University of Marburg, Spain with the CN Seville and finally Belgium always with a federal crew.
On the 27th, starting from 9.30 am, training took place on the Arno in front of the Canottieri Firenze on the No. 04 eights with the latest generation carbon fiber made available by Filippiboats. Then from the 15 preliminary head-to-head races between the eight participating crews. From 9pm the finals at night with the buoy lines that passed under the Ponte Vecchio illuminated for the occasion.
DINGHY IN THE ARNO FOR
REPUBLIC DAY 2023
Great participation in the event on 2 June 2023, on the occasion of the Republic Day, the Dinghy 12' returned to the Arno for the 5th Coppa Ponte Vecchio, a regatta organized by Vele Storiche Viareggio in collaboration with the Società Canottieri Firenze, the Circolo Nautico Mugello and the patronage of the AICD Italian Dinghy Class Association and the FIV Italian Sailing Federation.
The event now in its fifth edition was a source of attraction for the public who crowded the Lungarni and the Ponte Vecchio and who witnessed the unique spectacle of these small sailboats that challenged each other in a river regatta.
The FIV regional president Andrea Leonardi in greeting the participants recalled that this day is doubly festive due to the concomitance with the "Sailing Day".
Open day
Integrated Sport Therapy Project
SaTURDAY 4
February 2023
The Open Day of the "Integrated Sport Therapy" project will be held on Saturday 4 February 2023 at the Società Canottieri Firenze 1886.
A project put in place by the Italian Rowing Federation with the funding of Sport and Health to which the red and white rowing club has joined with enthusiasm.
From 10 to 12 and from 15.30 to 18.30 "open doors" to all those interested in the historic headquarters in Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa dei Medici 8, between the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi parapet.
The federal project, also realized thanks to the collaboration of Federsanità ANCI, is aimed at doctors, people with previous pathologies (oncological and not only) and passionate adults over 65, and was created with the aim of increasing the well-being and quality of life of participants, promoting a new vision of rowing understood not only as a sport, but as a complete discipline which, through contact with nature, offers the ideal solution for following a healthy and correct lifestyle, in the right balance between mind and body.
Special guest for the red and white Open Day of the FIC/Sport e Salute project: Laura Milani, official testimonial of "Integrated Sport Therapy", world champion in the women's lightweight doubles in 2013 and blue at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in the same specialty .
We hope many of you will come
PALIO REMIERO DI SAN GIOVANNI
FEAST OF SAN GIOVANNI
24 JUNE 2022
4° Coppa Ponte Vecchio
2 June 2022
NEW BOAT "4-" DONATED BY THE BAGNOLI FAMILY
"Susy", sweet, dry, decisive name. Like a four without, the boat par excellence in the recent history of Canottieri Firenze. Like the boat that the Bagnoli family - the vice president Niccolò, the honorary member Paolo - wanted to help give to the red and white fleet, which is thus enriched with a new top-level racing rig, to continue racing towards new victories. A four without dedicated to a woman who has had the merit of always encouraging her son and husband to do their best for Canottieri, and whose name from today will proudly sail the waters of the Arno.
Sunday 26/9 "Corri la Vita"
for prevention in women
for everyone's health
The Società Canottieri Firenze participates for the first time with great enthusiasm in the "Corri la vita" event, illustrating to the participants the treasures hidden in its headquarters and its mission over the decades to make children grow in the values of the sport of rowing with the great peculiarity to carry it out surrounded by the beauty and culture that derives from its particular position. The Canottieri through the Pink Lady, a group of women who have experienced breast cancer on their skin, for whose awareness the "Corri la vita" event is born, wants to give a further signal of your identity, sensitivity and attention to problems that affect people. This group of women use a particular type of boat and paddle as both physical and psychological therapy. Today they took the participants around the Arno with their characteristic boats, sharing their experience and sharing a journey. Canottieri is proud to be able to share with everyone this set of values that forge its identity.
The Canottieri is honored to have welcomed and been able to tell so many curious people about what was hiding behind that green door; we were also very happy to have had among the participants the President of the Region Eugenio Giani, the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardelli and the councilor for Sport Cosimo Guccione
Baptism of the boat dedicated to Federigo Susini
Sunday 12 September 2021
"Praise to love and passion" is what Carla Manenti Susini strongly wanted to represent in giving a wonderful boat in memory of her husband Federigo Susini, a great athlete and in love with our Company, so much so as to follow up on other 2 generations of champions. unique in our company. Giving a dedicated boat as a gift means perpetuating a story, theirs and entrusting it to the sweet and vigorous furrow of the wave
FEAST OF SAN GIOVANNI 2021
During the Feast of San Giovanni on June 24th we baptized two boats. A carbon double from the Filippi shipyards named after the recently deceased partner and friend Roberto Manghi, who was President of the rowing club in the early 90s. The other boat, a 7.20 from the Filippi shipyards, indicated for youth activities, named after the late partner and friend Rolando Tinti. The day continued with the presentation of the team and its results. In the evening at 8 pm a large social dinner on the shore with a mega table where the members were able to share a moment of conviviality. After the fireworks made to shine at 10 pm to signal a rebirth and restart with these pyrotechnic effects, the evening ended with a performance by the Pole Dance Academy, La Compagnia Colonna.
"Palio Remiero di San Giovanni" 2021
The Società Canottieri Firenze together with the Society of San Giovanni Battista renews the tradition of celebrations for the patron saint of the city by organizing the "Palio Remiero di San Giovanni" on 20/6/21, which involved the districts of Florence: Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella, Santa Croce and San Giovanni.
The race took place between the headquarters of the Società Canottieri Firenze (Uffizi) and the Ponte Santa Trinita and back with a buoy turn, for a distance of about 700 meters.
It was competed on four gigs (boats typically used for rowing), in two heats and a final.
The Greens of the San Giovanni district have brilliantly won this Palio Remiero 2021
Brief historical notes: from 1250 to 1740 in Florence, on 25 July, the palio of "navicelli" or "barchetti" was held in honor of Sant’Jacopo. On that evening, as far back as 1250, Florentine boatmen and renaioli competed by dint of vigorous strokes of the rods in the typical town "regatta", on the stretch of water between Ponte Vecchio and the Pescaia di Santa Rosa. The prize consisted of a valuable "cloth" and a cash prize, offered by the Signoria.
Ponte Vecchio Cup for 12 ‘wooden dinghies
On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, following the cancellation of the 2020 event due to the pandemic, the third edition of the Dinghy 12’ Wooden Classics Ponte Vecchio Cup was held.
The event was hosted at the Società Canottieri Firenze, a historical society under the Uffizi Gallery facing Ponte Vecchio. Due to some last-minute defections the competing hulls were three however the desire to restart did not hinder the race, which took place during a beautiful sunny day with a light breeze.
Marcello Corsi won the 2021 Cup racing on his “No Dinghy, No Party” boat
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